Compressor: Encode Media

Compressor is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform*, all in one simple plan. Overview 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 movie for sale on the iTunes Store. Advanced Encoding for Final Cut Pro • 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 stereoscopic spatial video and deliver directly to Apple Vision Pro • Unrivaled performance with optimizations for the latest generation of Apple silicon 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, MV-HEVC, 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 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 System Requirements: macOS 15.6 or later, 8 GB of memory, 1.2 GB of available disk space. Apple Immersive Video processing requires 32 GB memory (64 GB recommended). Storage read speed of 2 GB/s or faster is recommended. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon.