Compressor 4+

Powerful encoding. Delivered‪.‬

Apple

    • 4.4 • 157 Ratings
    • £49.99

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Description

Compressor integrates tightly with Final Cut Pro and Motion to add power and flexibility to your video conversions. Quickly customise 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 customise 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)
• Unrivalled performance with optimisations for the M2 Pro, M2 Max and M2 Ultra chips

iTunes Store Package Creation
• Import and organise 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 colour video, then deliver in standard Rec. 601 and Rec. 709 colour spaces or in wide Rec. 2020 colour space
• Deliver High Dynamic Range (HDR) video with controls for colour 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 colour 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 colour space in the viewer.

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
157 Ratings

157 Ratings

Benji UK ,

Pretty Good - just a few extra formats to make it fantastic

So I don’t have any problems using Compressor, and I’ve been using it for years. I use it mainly for corporate video. It’s the easiest and fastest it’s ever been. I just wish it was a one-stop shop for ALL my needs, as in being able to compress to more unusual formats, and even Windows formats. I also find the several tiers of arrows required to open and find your completed files a little unnecessary. But hey, nothing’s broken and I believe I’ve certainly got my money’s worth - it’s just I keep an extra converter for those other bits, which is a bit annoying.

Michal Sulima ,

good tool but often painfully slow

While in theory compressor has all the tools you would expect, in recent version it suddenly became extremely slow to complete jobs. This isn't a hardware issue - I'm on a powerful mac pro editing and grading 4k footage with Davinci; something is wrong with Compressor itself. It can go through a job at an expected pace, then suddenly slow down to an absolute crawl towards the last 10%. Time estimation it gives is pretty much meaningless and sometimes it adds an error and cancels the job on the last few percent after 6 hours of painful encoding of something that would take a fraction of the time for Davinci or even Premiere Pro.

Seems to need performance improvements / bug cleanup badly.

Mahir265 ,

Not Great But Does What Is Expected

The Fact That It Is Worth A Fortune It Is Not Better Than An Online Converter But I Am Not Putting You Off. It Is good for more like videos or music or live streaming but it is not recommended for photos. it Does Not Support Jpg,PNG and all the photo formats but only supports TIFF Image Sequence and OpenEXR Image Sequence which are more like videos

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  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

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

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