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New Features in Compressor 2

There are a number of new features, enhancements, and changes in this version of

Compressor, the most significant of which are introduced below. See the

Compressor 2

User Manual

and the

Distributed Processing Setup

guide for details on these features.

Distributed Processing

Compressor 2 can now accelerate processing by distributing the work to multiple

computers that have been chosen to provide more processing power. All you need is

access to more than one computer, and Compressor 2 installed with either

DVD Studio Pro 4 or Final Cut Studio. Compressor 2 and its Apple Qmaster 2 distributed

processing system handle all the work distribution and processing for you, behind the

scenes. They subdivide the work for speed, route the work to the computers with the

most available computing power, and direct the processing.

Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3) Audio Encoding

and Surround Sound

Compressor now offers integrated Dolby Digital Professional encoding on computers

that have DVD Studio Pro 4 or Final Cut Studio installed. The Dolby Digital Professional

format (also known as

AC-3

) is a very common compressed audio format for DVD-Video

discs. Now you can create several different kinds of Dolby-certified AC-3 encoded files

(either 5.1 surround, stereo, or mono) from single-channel or multi-channel source files.

With Compressor 2, it’s no longer necessary to use an additional tool for AC-3

encoding. For a DVD project, for example, you can now process both the video files and

the AC-3-encoded audio files in a single batch. Compressor 2 can now also support any

kind of source files that contain surround sound, simplifying the workflow when

encoding to surround sound for such files. Compressor 2 can also create surround

sound QuickTime movies from surround groups.

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1 New Features in Compressor 2 There are a number of new features, enhancements, and changes in this version of Compressor, the most significa

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2 Advanced Image Analysis Compressor now offers high-quality transcoding from many different source formats to many different target formats using

Command Line Features If you are accustomed to doing your work from Terminal shells, and need or prefer to run Compressor from the command line wit

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Apple New Features in Compressor 2 User Manual