Apple Compressor (4.0) - Manual (Page 34)

Chapter 4 Assign settings and preview media 34
Assign a setting to a job using the shortcut menu
1 Select one or more jobs in the Batch window’s current batch.
2 Control-click one of the selected jobs and choose New Target With Setting from the
shortcut menu.
The shortcut menu lists the settings based on their groups. You cannot directly choose a group
to be assigned, but each group contains an “All” item that selects all the group’s settings.
Note: You cannot select multiple individual settings with this method.
3 Choose a setting, or choose All to choose all settings in a group.
The settings are applied to all selected jobs.
Assign a setting from the Finder
Do one of the following:
m Drag one or more settings from the Finder to an empty space in the Batch window.
A new job appears with one or more target rows populated with the settings.
m Drag one or more settings from the Finder to an empty space on a job tile in the Batch window.
One or more new target rows appear on the job, populated with the settings.
Replace an assigned setting with a different setting
After you’ve assigned a setting to a job, you might find a more suitable setting and decide to
change the target’s setting to the new one. You can use several methods to change a target’s
setting. All of these methods leave the destination and output filename settings as they are.
Replace a setting already assigned to a target with a different setting
Do one of the following:
m Select the target and choose Target > Change Setting.
This opens the setting selection dialog, where you can choose a new setting and click Add to
assign it to the selected target.
m Control-click the target and choose Change Setting from the shortcut menu.
This opens the setting selection dialog, where you can choose a new setting and click Add to
assign it to the selected target.
m Select the new setting in the Settings tab and drag it to the target.
Note: With all the above methods, if you select multiple settings, only the top one is assigned
to the target.