Apple Compressor (4.0) - Manual (Page 41)

Chapter 4 Assign settings and preview media 41
Example: Create custom groups and settings for DVD
For this example, suppose you’re working on an HD project that will eventually end up on both an
HD and an SD DVD. Before that happens, though, you also need to supply SD DVDs of the dailies.
An easy way to handle this is to create two groups of settings:
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Settings for the dailies: These settings would include an AIFF audio encoder (because you want
it done fast and disc space will not likely be an issue) and an MPEG-2 encoder with an SD
frame size using the fastest settings (because quality isn’t the highest priority). This could also
be an HD encoder if you have an easy way to play an HD DVD.
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Settings for the final disc: These settings would include an AC-3 audio encoder, an H.264 HD
for DVD video encoder, and an MPEG-2 encoder using the Frame Controls to ensure a high-
quality SD output video.
You would most likely create a third settings group that would be named after this project and
would contain the above two groups.
Create the groups for dailies and final outputs
1 In the Settings tab, click the Create a New Setting Group button three times to create three new,
untitled groups.
2 Select the first of the new groups and, using the Inspector window, name it after the project.
3 Select the second of the new groups and name it Dailies.
4 Select the third of the new groups and name it Final Discs.
5 In the Settings tab, drag the Dailies and Final Discs groups up until a black box surrounds the
group named after the project, and then release them.
Note: You can select multiple groups or settings by holding down Shift while selecting them.
6 Locate the Apple settings that come closest to matching what you need each setting to do in
these new groups.
7 Make a copy of each setting by clicking the Duplicate Selected Setting button.
8 Select each copied setting, rename it, and then drag it to the proper folder.
This custom group
contains the other
custom groups, each
with its own settings.
This custom group
contains the settings
used to create the
final disc.
This custom group
contains the settings
used to create the dailies.
You can then select each setting and make any necessary changes to it.
When you’ve imported the source media files and created their jobs, you can just assign the
appropriate group (Dailies or Final Disc) and all the proper settings are applied to the targets.