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AWESOME: Compressor 2 and QuickTime Export Component Plug-Ins
Hi all
I must admit there was an unexpected amount of positive interest to my detailed post last week on using Compressor and Final Cut Pro in tandem to encode different media types.
As a result, I would like to share the results of some of the research we have been conducting over the last week with the community. This has been research with respect to Final Cut Pro 5, and its integrated Compressor 2 workflows.
Let me recap the reason for the research.
In my opinion, one of the most powerful things about QuickTime is that it is not a media format, but rather a media architecture. It has had extensibility considered as a pivotal feature, from a very early point in development.
QuickTime allows addition of different formats via way of modules. Third party developers can literally produce a module to allow QuickTime to export media of any kind of format, no matter how foreign or how proprietary.
Some of the more popular additional formats and plug-ins available today: