Apple Compressor (4.0) - Manual (Page 37)

Chapter 4 Assign settings and preview media 37
Duplicate a setting
If there is a setting that contains some attributes that you want to use in another setting, you can
duplicate the existing setting and make the necessary modifications to the duplicate rather than
creating a new setting from scratch. Duplicating a stock Apple setting and then adjusting the
duplicate to suit your needs is the most convenient way to create a custom setting.
1 In the Settings tab, select the setting that you want to duplicate.
2 Click the Duplicate Selected Setting button.
Click this button to duplicate
the selected setting.
Select the setting
to be duplicated.
A new setting appears in the Custom folder with the word Untitled appended before the
original name.
3 Select the new setting in the Custom folder.
4 At the top of the Inspector, name the duplicate setting and provide a description.
5 Click the Encoder button in the Inspector, and change the output format and video and audio
codecs and their associated attributes.
Different options are provided in the Encoder pane for each file format.
You can also change options in any of the other panes in the Inspector. For more information,
see
Inspector panes on page 42.
6 If you’ve modified the setting in any way, you can do one of the following to save the changes:
•
Click the Save button at the bottom of the Inspector window.
•
Select any other setting.
A dialog asks if you want to save the changed attributes.
7 Click OK to save the changes, or click Revert to cancel the changes and return to the Inspector.
For information about assigning settings, see Assign settings to source media on page 32.