• Apple Final Cut Pro

  FCPX and Compressor 4 – where are the detailed settings?

  Posted by Olly Lawer on March 5, 2012 at 4:08 pm

  Hi,

  I had my workflow nicely worked out with FCP 6 for YouTube and would export H.264, 8000kb/s for download.

  However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about this with FCPX? I just paid for Compressor 4, thinking the option would be there, but it isn’t!

  Any help appreciated and sorry if this has been covered already – I saw similar posts but none that answered by question.

  Olly Lawer

  Jeff Greenberg replied 14 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Jacob Lanum

  March 6, 2012 at 2:37 am

  If you want options your using the wrong program
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  Nick Ring

  March 6, 2012 at 3:59 am

  The settings window in Compressor has a search bar. Does entering “h.264” bring up a setting that would make a good starting point for you? Also, with that search bar empty, click on the button to its immediate right (“+” with a dropdown). There are a variety of other presets available there.

  You should also be able import Compressor 3.5 custom presets into 4. I have not tried the method in this link, but maybe it will be helpful: Moving Compressor 3.5 Custom Presets to Compressor 4

  -nick
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  Nick Ring

  March 6, 2012 at 4:03 am

  Compressor 4 is not particularly different from Compressor 3.5. Did you feel the same way about earlier versions of Compressor? What encoding program do you generally use/prefer?

  -nick
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  Jacob Lanum

  March 6, 2012 at 5:18 am

  I use sorenson squeeze.
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  Olly Lawer

  March 6, 2012 at 11:07 am

  Thanks. Found a solution. I select YouTube as the preset (interestingly it was already using settings of 8000kbps so I was along the right lines!) and changed to 1080 and download then saved as a custom setting. Worked a treat. I can now select the setting straight from FCPX.

  I must say I am liking FCPX better and better.

  Olly Lawer
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  Jeff Greenberg

  March 6, 2012 at 3:03 pm

  Send it over to compressor.

  Use compressor to pick whatever setting you want and customize it (just like in compressor 3)

  Apple has a youtube preset set to 20,000k.

  Best,

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