Compressor adds advanced delivery tools, distributed encoding, and configurable output options by intimately integrating with Final Cut Pro. It is the most robust and versatile method of exporting Final Cut Pro projects, including 360° video, HDR, HEVC, and MXF.
Navigating compression projects is made simple by the slick UI that complements Final Cut Pro. To easily modify complex audio and video properties, launch the inspector and view the encoding options in the left sidebar. Directly beneath a sizable viewer that allows you to browse and navigate your file, your file appears in the center.
To guarantee constant performance and quality across apps, Compressor makes use of the rendering engines from Final Cut Pro and Motion. It uses the high-speed GPU on your graphics card to speed up picture processing chores, divides work among several CPU cores on your Mac, and makes use of hardware encoders for H.264 and HEVC.
You can share your work with other Final Cut Pro editors, even if they don’t have Compressor installed on their computers, whether you’re modifying an already-existing Compressor configuration or making a brand-new one. In order to automate actions like emailing, copying, and relocating files, or executing a custom script, you can also construct assignments that combine an encoding option with a post-encode action.
The compressor has built-in distributed encoding capabilities; therefore, a separate application is not necessary. To enable distributed encoding, just install Compressor on any Mac connected to your network and turn it on as a cluster node.
Use preset groups of Mac machines on your network to encode workloads without the need for specialist hardware. Depending on the availability of designated computers, the “Shared Computers” feature creates clusters of encoding nodes. It can even take advantage of a single computer’s idle processor cores to fully exploit multi-core systems’ computing capacity.
Core Features of Compressor:
- Immersive Metadata Viewer: Before completing the encode, you can examine spatial video characteristics like mirroring, fading, and camera switching using the Immersive Metadata Viewer.
- Apple Vision Pro Support: Direct transcoding of 180° stereoscopic video utilizing the 180° Apple Projected Media Profile (APMP) format is made possible by Apple Vision Pro Support.
- Anaglyph Preview: Apple Support offers a new anaglyph preview mode for securely keeping an eye on stereoscopic 3D video.
- Audio & Export: Enables transcodes of immersive sources without the need for an additional WAV file, Apple Support, and adds support for 5.1 AAC audio in Apple Device presets.