Apple Compressor (4.0) User Manual
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Chapter 4
Assign settings and preview media
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Designate a portion of your media file for transcoding
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If the Preview window is not shown by default, open it by choosing Window > Preview.
2
To set an In point, do one of the following:
•
Drag the In point to the appropriate location.
•
Drag the playhead to where you want transcoding to begin and click the Set In Point button.
Set In Point button
In point
Set Out Point button
Playhead
Out point
3
To set an Out point, do one of the following:
•
Drag the Out point to the appropriate location.
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Drag the playhead to where you want transcoding to end and click the Set Out Point button.
Note: When you use In and Out points to specify a segment of the source media file to transcode,
they apply to all targets assigned to the file’s job. You can add a source media file multiple times to
a batch, creating multiple jobs, and set the In and Out points differently in each job.
The only segment of the media file that will be transcoded is between the two points that you
set. The rest of the clip will not be transcoded.
For information about how to transcode the media file, see
on page 137.