Apple Compressor 3 - Manual (Page 153)

Compressor provides the tools you need to create DV files.
Due to its low cost and wide availability, the DV video format is extremely popular for
standard definition (SD) video capture and delivery.
This chapter covers the following:
• About the DV Stream Encoder Pane (p. 153)
• DV Transcoding Workflow (p. 154)
About the DV Stream Encoder Pane
This section contains detailed information about the various settings within the DV Stream
Encoder pane of the Inspector window. You make your DV settings by either modifying
an existing setting or creating a new setting in the Settings tab.
The Automatic buttons
for the Format, Aspect
Ratio, and Field
Order values
The DV Stream Encoder pane contains the following settings.
• Extension: This field displays the DV file extension (.dv) automatically after the DV Stream
output format is selected from the File Format pop-up menu, or the (+) pop-up menu
in the Settings tab.
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