Chapter 6: assign destinations and submit batches, Jobs, targets, and batches overview, Work with destinations – Apple Compressor (4.0) User Manual
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Jobs, targets, and batches overview
A job consists of a source media file with at least one target—composed of a setting and a
destination—assigned to it. You create the jobs by importing the source media files.
For a job to be complete, and thus ready to be submitted for transcoding, you need to add one
or more targets to it. Each target contains a setting, which defines how the file is transcoded, and
a destination, which defines where the transcoded file is saved and how it’s named. Each target
also allows you to manually enter the name for the output file.
Compressor provides a number of options for assigning settings and destinations to your
targets and submitting and resubmitting batches. If you’re going to use a combination of
settings and destinations often, you can create a preset. For more information about creating
presets in these windows, see
Assign settings to source media
on page 32 and
on page 143.
Work with destinations
Destinations overview
Compressor allows you to choose a location to save your transcoded files, called a destination.
If you don’t assign a destination, the output file is saved to the same folder as the source media
file. This may be satisfactory for your needs, but if there are various remote uploading servers,
or if you just want a specific type of output file to end up in a specific location, you must assign
that destination.
If you have a volume open on your desktop, it’s treated the same as a local destination and you
can save output media files directly to that volume, without the extra steps needed for remote
destinations, such as specifying the host name and entering the user name and password. When
you use the remote option for your destination, you can save to any folder in the user’s directory
of that remote computer.
After you create your destinations, they are available in the Batch window. Additionally, when
creating custom settings, you can assign a default destination that’s automatically used. For
details, see
Assign settings to source media
on page 32.
Assign destinations
and submit batches
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