Another one….Another
I played around a bit today with Apple’s Compression program, compressor. This program wasn’t previously installed on my Mac, and in order to get a small enough compression to put on the web, I was rendering out a video in almost full quality in Final Cut Pro, then I was using Quicktime to cut the framerate down to 15 fps, and also the video size down to 320 x 240. From there I put it into Visual Hub…now VH is a great program I think, but with compressor I have the ability to do all of this in one step.
I first render a fully uncompressed video in Final Cut Pro, this step is unavoidable…you can go straight to compressor with it, but why not have that uncompressed version to work from. Anyway…in Compressor I have a ton of options to choose from, I can render it with all sorts of different codecs for all sorts of different purposes. So I found the one I have been using and that is compressing for Web, and I use the H.264 codec. And then I adjust the frame rate and the size as usual.
Two things I really like about Compressor is, first of all once you select the compression you want to put on the video, it gives you a split screen preview of the original, and what it’s going to look like after. Pretty cool…
The other thing I see, now I haven’t played with it to know for sure…but it looks like you can have multiple videos rendering at the same time…so I can be compressing one video with one codec, and a whole different one with a different codec.
Here’s a great video on the power of Apple’s Compressor:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/compressor/
Now I’ve only barely scratched the surface of this program, but it’s pretty cool none the less…
Am I an Apple guy or what?