While Final Cut Pro X has created a lot of buzz since then, has one of its companion apps, compressor 4, remained in the shadows. Compressor 4, unlike FCP X and companion app business, offers users the warm, fuzzy feeling of a familiar interface and operational methodology.
Visually unchanged since 2007, this new version of the compressor is some significant upgrades under the hood. It lacks FCP X dark smokey look, and now you have to buy it separately, keeps this app much of the older supported codecs that FCP X sorely lacks.
One of the biggest benefits of compressor 4 is the addition of http Live encoding, which offers a complete set of files encoded for range of desktop and mobile devices, in a folder and ready to upload to the server.
Encoding files on a variety of bit-rate video stream can be divided into smaller http downloads, each representing a portion of the stream that can be customized by the accepting unit based on bandwidth or other features of the network.
Compressor offers six pre-configured options, broadband at 5Mbps and 2.5 Mbps, Wi-Fi high/low at 1.25 Mbps and 750 Kbps and Mobile high/low at 500 Kbps and 220 Kbps. stream http Live offers the advantage to move freely without being blocked frequently by firewalls or proxy servers in the same way as a typical would be.
Typical video streaming methods fail to work when behind some firewalls or proxy servers on sockets required by current is blocked. Http Live streaming is immune to this problem, because it uses port 80 via HTTP protocol, just like a normal Web page.
Most updates to compressor 4 is buried deeply under the hood, but the most notable of them is the seamless integration with FCP X. This means that a majority of users direct access multi-core or multi-machine compression and transcoding power without having to start the compressor.
As well as FCP X and exercise 5, compressor 4 offers faster 64-bit processing of ProRes codecs and h.264, but maintains the legacy support for older 32-bit codec still in use. This version offers users both power and speed, while quiet residing in the background until needed.
Complex rendering benefits from a 64-bit applications, the more processing can be handled in memory buffer at once. Export directly from within FCP X uses 64-bit processing to handle rendering of complex video and audio, while encoding is handled on 32-bit.
Why has Apple done it? Because only make compressor a 64-bit applications would not resolve the problem with codecs that are optimized for 32-bit or which do not come with Hyper-Threading technology. In fact, multiprocessing and network rendering can save more time than just with compressor on 64-bit. Not to make compressor 64-bit, Apple preserves compatibility with a wide range of current third-party 32-bit QuickTime codecs, which makes the transition to FCP X easier for some users.
For example, a multithreaded ProRes codec full advantage of all this processing. By using all available cores, are affected regardless of whether a machine or over a network rendering, it does not adversely by a 32-bit encoding process.
Apple sees the 32-bit encoding as a basis for many of the professional workflows that are not supported yet in the new version of FCP X, and it allows users the ability to continue migrating between pre-existing formats or file types to those that are more versatile in FCP X.
Most third-party plugins will require an update to work with the new processing engine, however it appears Apple has already begun to take steps to assure that is updated from the current developer will allow the compressor to work seamlessly, including the ability to use hardware-based compression, acceleration, Matrox CompressHD, during which both present and future OS development.
Apple says it markets the compressor as a separate app to completely rather enable its power adaptation than bury it in FCP x's menu. According to the new FCP X proportion available menu, common encoding workflows, and any custom settings created in the compressor 4, now available directly from the timeline.
Compressor 4 enables users to create and customize compression settings and droplets, like previous versions.?This adaptation has the added benefit of allowing users to share settings between computers.
Compression settings created in the compressor 3.x is directly transmitted to the compressor 4 by dragging the old settings to the new version. Just go to/Users/username/Library/Application Support/compressor folder, copy the existing custom settings from the compressor 3.5, and then drag the files to window settings in compressor 4 and all of your previous encoding settings are now immediately available for use in your new apps.
While HD-DVD format is no longer supported as of this release, is one of the other files with changed settings useful. You will need to set up separate encoding pipeline if you plan to use FCP X alongside the previous Final Cut Studio. If you are encoding cluster for compressor 4 and FCP X, make sure you have compressor 4 loaded on each computer in the cluster.
Keep in mind that Apple via Mac App Store, you can purchase an application once and install it on all your of personal computers. You can install the compressor on multiple Macs and set them all as personal encoding nodes with a single purchase of app.
Apple recommends that you stay with Compressor 3.5 cluster if you intend to continue to work with Final Cut Studio, but using compressor 4 If you plan to work with FCP X and exercise 5.
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