Compressor 4+

Powerful encoding. Delivered‪.‬

Apple

    • 4.6 • 166 Ratings
    • $69.99

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Description

Compressor integrates tightly with Final Cut Pro and Motion to add power and flexibility to your video conversions. Quickly customize output settings, enhance images, and package your film for sale on the iTunes Store. For even faster conversions, easily set up distributed encoding using other Mac computers.

Advanced Encoding for Final Cut Pro
• Use Compressor to customize encoding settings for use in Final Cut Pro and Motion
• Set up batch processes to streamline the encoding of large numbers of files
• Create self-contained Droplets to encode on the desktop with drag-and-drop ease
• Automatically encode videos that are added to selected folders in the file system
• Encode videos recorded on iPhone in Cinematic mode (requires macOS Monterey or later)
• Unrivaled performance with optimizations for the M2 Pro, M2 Max and M2 Ultra chips

iTunes Store Package Creation
• Import and organize your movie, trailer, closed captions, audio descriptions, and subtitles into an iTunes Store-compliant package for submission to an Apple-certified iTunes delivery partner
• Audition video with any audio, caption, or subtitle to verify sync
• Built-in error detection helps you identify issues with your iTunes Store Package
• Deliver HDR video as P3 D65 PQ, Rec. 2020 HLG, and Rec. 2020 PQ for HDR10
• Support in the iTunes Store Package to link a Dolby Vision graded video file to a Dolby Vision XML

Support for Industry Standards
• Encode to a broad range of industry standard formats including HEVC, MPEG-4, H.264, MXF and ProRes
• Import Targa, DPX, TIFF, PSD, PNG or OpenEXR image sequences and encode them using any setting
• Create, view, adjust, and deliver closed captions in CEA-608, SRT, and iTT formats

Pristine Format Conversions
• Convert any file between formats — such as NTSC to PAL, SD to HD or progressive to interlaced video
• Import and manipulate wide color video, then deliver in standard Rec. 601 and Rec. 709 color spaces or in wide Rec. 2020 color space
• Deliver High Dynamic Range (HDR) video with controls for color space conversions and HDR metadata
• Deliver HDR video as P3 D65 PQ, Rec. 2020 HLG, and Rec. 2020 PQ
• Add effects to your content like custom LUTs, a timecode overlay, and watermarks
• Speed up video, slow it down, or adjust the frame rate to make the duration match a runtime
• Convert log-encoded video to SDR and HDR color spaces using built in camera LUTs for Panasonic, Sony, Canon, Blackmagic, Nikon and ARRI or add a custom camera LUT
• Convert ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ media to other professional file formats
• Play and transcode Canon Cinema RAW Light to other video codecs and formats

Distributed Encoding
• Save time by distributing encoding work among multiple workstations
• Install Compressor on any Mac to activate it as a node for distributed encoding

System Requirements: macOS 13.5 or later, 8GB of RAM, 1.2GB of available disk space. ProRes RAW requires a Mac computer that supports Metal.

Blu-ray recorder required for burning Blu-ray discs.

What’s New

Version 4.7

Compressor 4.7 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Export HEVC and H.264 files faster by simultaneously processing video segments across available media engines (requires macOS Sonoma or later and a Mac with Apple M1 Max, M1 Ultra, M2 Max, M2 Ultra, or M3 Max).
• Create, configure, and build stereoscopic packages for the iTunes Store.
• Preview Log encoded video with or without Log applied.
• Adds support for JSON and XML output to batch submissions when using the command line.
• HDR content now displays in the correct color space in the viewer.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
166 Ratings

166 Ratings

Gigz ,

Best tool to use with FCPX

This is by far the most usefull tool to use with FCPX. Every single day our team is sending batch to compress files over the network. We have 2 maxed out Mac Pro and this is very fast and efficient. And by the way, this is so inexpensive! I like that!

Andrei@TIFF ,

4.4.5 is broken

In my fast paced business workflow, I am now crippled because of this upgrade. The Padding and Cropping functionality is changed to a point of being unuseable. I work with legacy video content as well as versioning content to be presented within different aspect ratio containers. Because of this, I have moved to Adobe Media Encoder.

Deaf to me ,

Crashes all projects in Final Cut Pro and iMovie!!!

Final Cut Pro and iMovie are useless because compressor doesn’t work. Can’t update the OS. If this isn’t resolved, I will move away from Apple for all my products. IO will not spend money to buy a new Mac just so I can have one program work. Ridiculous!!! I will not change this rating even if fixed. But, I’ll update my comment if the issue is resolved.

App Privacy

The developer, Apple, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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