Compressor 3.5 - Technical Specifications

Minimum System Requirements

  • Mac computer with an Intel processor
  • 1GB of RAM (2GB of RAM recommended when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources; 4GB of RAM recommended when working with uncompressed HD sources)
  • ATI or NVIDIA graphics processor. Integrated Intel graphics processors are not supported except the Intel HD Graphics 3000.
  • 128MB of VRAM
  • Display with 1280-by-800 resolution or higher
  • Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later
  • QuickTime 7.6 or later
  • DVD drive for installation
  • For burning Blu-ray discs: a Blu-ray recorder

High-Performance Encoding

  • H.264 multi-pass encoding for Blu-ray discs and files
  • Support for red laser burning of AVCHD discs for playback in compatible Blu-ray players
  • H.264 for Apple devices, web, mobile devices
  • HD DVD encoding for DVD Studio Pro authoring
  • Support for image sequence sources: TIFF, Targa, DPX, JPEG, and OpenEXR
  • Support for encoding to TIFF, Targa, DPX, JPEG, and OpenEXR image sequences
    • Full QuickTime support
    • MPEG-2 encoding
    • MPEG-1 encoding
    • MPEG-4 encoding
    • Distributed encoding with segmentation options
    • Two-pass VBR encoding for MPEG-2
    • Provides Dolby-certified encoding to Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 format
    • Accepts QuickTime (single-channel or multichannel), AIFF, Sound Designer, and WAV files
    • Advanced chaptering for Apple TV and podcasting
  • Closed caption support for Apple devices, QuickTime, and MPEG-2
  • Batch templates with job actions for automating workflows from encoding to delivery, including:
    • Add to iTunes Library
    • Create DVD
    • Create Blu-ray Disc
    • Create Web Reference Movie
    • Open with Application
    • Run Automator Workflow
    • Publish to YouTube
  • Automatic setting creation via drag and drop of a QuickTime file
    • Scaling and down-converting
    • Standards conversions
    • Retiming
    • Preview with split-screen comparison
    • High-quality image processing
    • More than 100 presets included
    • Automated encoding with droplets
    • Automatic and custom cropping
  • Automatic and custom padding
  • Automatic copying of source media for reference media to encoding nodes
    • Four audio filters: dynamic range; peak limiter; Apple: AUGraphicEQ and fade in/out
    • Automatic post to FTP
    • Reverse telecine
    • Deinterlacing
  • Enhanced droplets for easy desktop encoding

Dolby Digital Professional Encoding

  • Dolby-certified encoding to Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 format
  • Accepts QuickTime (single-channel or multichannel), AIFF, Sound Designer, and WAV format sound files for encoding
  • Support for all channel formats from mono to 5.1 surround sound
  • Automatically creates 2.0 or 5.1 based on number of channels in the source media file
  • Confidence decoding for preview of AC-3 files

Video Filters

  • BlackWhite Restore
  • Brightness and Contrast
  • Color Correct Highlights
  • Color Correct Midtones
  • Color Correct Shadows
  • Deinterlacing
  • Fade In/Out
  • Gamma Correction
  • Letterbox
  • Noise Removal
  • Sharpen Edge
  • Text Overlay
  • Timecode Generator
  • Watermark (Image, animated with QuickTime or Motion files)

Audio Filters

  • Dynamic Range
  • Peak Limiter
  • Apple: AUGraphicEQ
  • Fade In/Out 

 

Published Date: Jul 26, 2017