Apple Compressor (4.0) - Manual (Page 59)

Chapter 4 Assign settings and preview media 59
Preview window
The Preview window contains the following controls:
Timeline controls
Preview area
Source View and
Setting View buttons
Preview Scale pop-up menu
In and Out controls
Transport controls
Selection and view controls
You can use the Batch Item selection controls to choose specific items from the Batch window
to show in the Preview window. You can also resize the Preview window and switch between
Source view and Setting view.
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Batch Item selection buttons: Use these buttons to click backward or forward through the list of
source media files and clips with settings available for previewing. As you click through the list,
the selected batch item appears in the Batch Item pop-up menu.
Batch Item
selection buttons
Batch Item pop-up menu
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Batch Item pop-up menu: Choose the source media file you want to preview, with or without its
assigned settings.
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Preview scale pop-up menu: Adjusts the Preview screen size. The three settings are 100%, 75%,
and 50%, but you can also drag the Preview window resize control to any size you like.
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Source View and Setting View buttons: Use these buttons to preview the selected batch item
using either the source’s aspect ratio and size or the setting’s aspect ratio and size. Source view
also provides a cropping boundary that you can use to define one or more edges to be cropped.
Setting view shows the cropped version of the media scaled to its aspect and size setting.