Compressor integrates tightly with Final Cut Pro and Motion to add power and flexibility to your video conversions. Quickly customize output settings, enhance images, and package your movie for sale on the iTunes Store. Easily set up distributed encoding using other Mac computers.
Advanced Encoding for Final Cut Pro
• Use Compressor to customize encoding settings for use in Final Cut Pro and Motion
• Set up batch processes to streamline the encoding of large numbers of files
• Create self-contained Droplets to encode on the desktop with drag-and-drop ease
• Automatically encode videos that are added to selected folders in the file system
• Encode stereoscopic spatial video and deliver directly to Apple Vision Pro
• Encode videos recorded with iPhone in Cinematic mode
• Unrivaled performance with optimizations for the latest generation of Apple silicon
iTunes Store Package Creation
• Import and organize your movie, trailer, closed captions, audio descriptions, and subtitles into an iTunes Store-compliant package for submission to an Apple-certified iTunes delivery partner
• Audition video with any audio, caption, or subtitle to verify sync
• Built-in error detection helps you identify issues with your iTunes Store Package
• Deliver HDR video as P3 D65 PQ, Rec. 2020 HLG, and Rec. 2020 PQ for HDR10
• Support in the iTunes Store Package to link a Dolby Vision graded video file to a Dolby Vision XML
Support for Industry Standards
• Encode to a broad range of industry standard formats including HEVC, MV-HEVC, H.264, MXF and ProRes
• Import Targa, DPX, TIFF, PSD, PNG or OpenEXR image sequences and encode them using any setting
• Create, view, adjust, and deliver closed captions in CEA-608, SRT, and iTT formats
Pristine Format Conversions
• Convert any file between formats — such as NTSC to PAL, SD to HD or progressive to interlaced video
• Import and manipulate wide color video, then deliver in standard Rec. 601 and Rec. 709 color spaces or in wide Rec. 2020 color space
• Deliver High Dynamic Range (HDR) video with controls for color space conversions and HDR metadata
• Deliver HDR video as P3 D65 PQ, Rec. 2020 HLG, and Rec. 2020 PQ
• Add effects to your content like custom LUTs, a timecode overlay, and watermarks
• Speed up video, slow it down, or adjust the frame rate to make the duration match a runtime
• Convert log-encoded video to SDR and HDR color spaces using built in camera LUTs for Panasonic, Sony, Canon, Blackmagic, Nikon and ARRI or add a custom camera LUT
• Convert ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ media to other professional file formats
• Play and transcode Canon Cinema RAW Light to other video codecs and formats
Distributed Encoding
• Save time by distributing encoding work among multiple workstations
• Install Compressor on any Mac to activate it as a node for distributed encoding
System Requirements: macOS 15.6 or later, 8 GB of memory, 1.2 GB of available disk space. Apple Immersive Video processing requires 32 GB memory (64 GB recommended). Storage read speed of 2 GB/s or faster is recommended. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon.
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Encoding done right
Bobthebomber1
This program gets the short end of the stick. As it is not very flashy and does not try to impress anyone with it’s interface.But for an encoder, its great.I can totally see why that is counter intuitive as it just takes up more processing and resources away from the machine running it. The way it incodes is a lot like a command prompt render que on a Windows machine. (Which is nothing flashy either) It loads up resources into a batch que and then without any sort of graphic interface besides text and starts encoding.Which makes it a really strong tool for anyone that needs a large amount of FCPX or other projects rendered into a usable compressed sequence.Keepping everything to the bare minimum means that this program exports faster than FCPX and Motion could as it does not have to load up extra data and just get right to work.There are plenty of options and way to costumize the output format. For me I really like the GIF option as it makes it easy to export a smaller and even faster file to send to my clients and have them take a look at the sequince without going all the way to sending a full copy.There are a lot of cheaper products out there that probably could do just as good of job, but this one is constantly being updated and has a good devloper backing it. So if you run FCPX this is a must have to save time on the exporting process.The price is $50 and it has been since 2011.
Fails at h.264 compression.
Purgpow
**UPDATE**Compressor 4.4.4After getting a new mac and being able to update “Compressor App” to version 4.4.4 All issues that are stated below were resolved. Now Compressor renders (h.264) fast and with great quality and small files size comparable to HandBrake. I am raising my Stars from 3 to 5 because the App does everything it claims with all the features i use. With this feature fixed I can now just compress to h.264 straight out of Compressor and eliminate my need for HandBrake.Compressor: 4.3.2Overall this is a nice compressing app, the interface is user friendly and simple to use, I wish more apps were this clean and focused on just doing what they are suppose to do. The batch rendering feature in this app is a god send.I have one issue with Compressor, and it is kinda a big one for me. It is horrible at h.264 compression, which is weird having an Apple product that cant do h.264 well. If you Compress using the more lossless formats like 4:2:2 or 4:4:4:4 the app has great results and fast render times, but h.264 is slow and horrible quality compared to Adobe products ore even the freeware HandBrake. So I use this app to render my videos in apple ProRes 4:2:2 and then I use “HandBrake” to get them to a smaller file size and the h.264 format with out quality loss.There is no reason Adobe and freeware products should kick the pants off of Apple when it comes to Compressing video to h.264 format but they do and Apple should fix this.i’m removing 2 stars from this product rating because an app that is solely designed to compress video files should be amazing at just that, and this one fall short when dealing with the h.264 codex.
Does not work for me, M1 Macbook Pro
brbezme
This app is extremely unreliable for me. It started working after several force quits, and I was able to create a custom setting to use when exporting from Final Cut, which worked fine. However, when attempting to use a droplet I created, as well as dropping the video file directly in compressor, it became unresponsive yet again. Compressor was working until it said 'unable to submit to queue'Apparently, a lot of other people have had similar issues going back several years and through many versions of this software. There are forums that recommend a plethora of solutions, like changing permissions of the Applications Support folder in Shared or giving the app Full Disk Access. Even if those solutions worked, it doesn't make up for the fact that they shouldn't be necessary in the first place. The app should just work. Sure make your presets and set up your workflow, but then it should just work, no muss no fuss. It is surprising to me that Apple has not fixed these critical issues and also charges $50 for a piece of unusable software that at the least should be included for free with the purchase of Final Cut for $300.And if the current issue at hand is compatibility with M1 Macs (Apple Silicon), it should've been updated on day 1 to be fully compatible.If Apple were to make this right; fix these issues and bundle the app for free with Final Cut, subsequently refunding the $50 to those who have purchased both apps, I would give 5 stars.
Compressor needs to restart your computer...
Promiceus
"Compressor installation is broken and needs to restart your computer to be repaired”. Or whatever the phrasing is. But sudenly during working hours I have to restart my computer, closing Final Cut (another box with bugs), all of my 3D rendering software, audio, all of my network connected computers (each of which of course flashes reports that network computer is disconnected and I have to walk aroud the room to discmiss stupid notification, which is another sad story of modern apple), reopen files and basically just have a full stop during a working day. I cannot believe this comes from Apple. A simple thing aimed at one function cannot cope with itself. On Apple’s OS. And on Apple’s hardware. Tim Cook's world is so exciting: he’s happy to talk big interviews about cycling and greenpeace and pride and has time for all of this, while his engineers cannot complete a small app that converts videos.Oh, forgot to mention why this seemingly little thing dissapointed me so much: it happens on a daily basis, sometimes several times a day!
• This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
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• Create files for an Apple Immersive Video package for playback, and HTTP live streaming on Apple Vision Pro
Version 5.2
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