Apple New Features in Compressor 2 - Manual (Page 2)

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Advanced Image Analysis
Compressor now offers high-quality transcoding from many different source formats to
many different target formats using advanced image analysis. That means you can now
do any of the following at levels of quality that were previously only available through
expensive hardware solutions:
 Convert video files between international television standards such as PAL to NTSC,
or NTSC to PAL.
 Downconvert high definition (HD) video sources to standard definition (SD), or
upconvert SD to HD.
 Convert a progressive stream to an interlaced one, or interlaced to progressive.
Compressor 2 ships with completely new set of Apple presets, representing a wide variety
of workflows such as the standards conversions described here, as well as web delivery,
mobile devices, SD DVD, HD-based DVD, professional audio, and motion graphics.
H.264 and HD MPEG-2
Compressor 2 offers full support of the new H.264 codec, as well as enhanced MPEG-2
options for high definition video:
 Compressor 2 adds output for H.264, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10. This ultra-
efficient, fully scalable video technology produces higher quality video at lower data
rates for everything from mobile phones to High Definition (HD). H.264 is currently
mandatory in both new high definition DVD specifications (HD DVD and Blu-Ray)
and functionally included in hundreds of new electronics products.
 Compressor 2 provides support for the new HDV format and enhanced MPEG-2
options for HD-resolution video formats up to 1920 x 1080, with bit rates up to
29 Mbps. This includes full support for HDV files edited in Final Cut Pro.
High Resolution Audio
Compressor 2 now supports high resolution audio up to 64 bits per sample (floating
point) and sample rates up to192 kHz:
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