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What is Compressor?

Compressor adds power and flexibility for exporting projects from Final Cut Pro.

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Compressor adds power and flexibility for exporting projects from Final Cut Pro.


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Apple’s three software platforms — iOS, OS X and watchOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud.

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Fernando F.
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Fernando F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great way to Create multiple Video Formats"
It can handle the creation of multimple video formats I need.
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5.0 out of 5
"Review of Apple's Compressor- An Intuitive Platform for Video Conversions"
What is most unique about Compressor is that the platform offers many different formats for video conversion. From mp4, Quicktime movie, and even W...
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Mark R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Great for converting footage to different formats!"
I use Compressor to convert footage to different formats for multiple uses, such as for DVD's, Blurays, editing, Youtube etc. It's very easy to use...
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Anshul S.
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What do you like best about Compressor?

I can export my videos in any format like h.264 or h.265 with this app in mac book pro and also can render multiple files at the same time without any hassle to worry about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

The software is not free and you have to pay extra 50 dollars to get this from the app store , it should be bundled with final cut pro purchase to reduce the cost of usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

As I told , it helps me to export my video in any size and any codec like h.264 or prores, as not everybody uses mac and ,mov files might not work in every one's laptop when working with clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Valentin (Val) S.
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What do you like best about Compressor?

Ease of use and fast, integrates well with Final Cut Pro Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

Needs more presets for formats. Sometimes it crushes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

compress to a manageable size without lowering quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Compressor?

I loved that it made my work easier and used AI integration to automate tasks. It eliminated a lot of the mindless research tasks that one has to do and provided simple solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

It took me a long time to understand the software and it's aplications. The AI component was unclear and I had to use a few youtube tutorials to fully make use of the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reseach and analysis. It takes care of finding relevant data and presenting them is structured way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MW
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What do you like best about Compressor?

Options, options, options. When it comes to video/audio compression this app really comes in handy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

Tho overall fairly easy to use, there is a bit of a learning curve as you get started. The user interface could definitely be more intuitive . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

compressing video, and doing it quickly with lots of options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pouria E.
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What do you like best about Compressor?

i like being able to Easily view, adjust and export closed captions, with the ability to import caption files — even in multiple languages which is great for my use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

the interface and processing times could be faster as it takes a while compared to other application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

it solves the problem of transcoding audio and video files into a variety of file formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Compressor?

It's super easy to work with. If you are in an environment with a heavy dependency on shared storage, having a render farm setup can really speed things up when you're scaling across multiple projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

It can be quite slow which is sometimes frustrating. Doesn't allow access to some of the more rudimental encoding options. Can get better subjective visual quality at similar file sizes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compressor is ideal for transcoding for delivery because of how easy it is to make a batch and set up watch folders. This particular function is a favourite of mine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Compressor?

Automations like the new Watch Folder feature can save time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

In my experience, it's not always quicker or better using Compressor. We were using it for all FCP renderings and had an issue in which an Apple support engineer suggested we might be better not using it.

We also found fairly early on that setting it up on multiple computers to share the rendering load didn't save much more time than it cost. Generally, you're better just going for a coffee.

As with several Mac Pro apps on my fully loaded 15" MBP just having Compressor running causes the fan to start up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

At present, to be honest, Compressor is just there if we particularly need a specific file conversion. We generally just use FCP default renderings. It is however very useful to have it there in case a client or project requires a particular format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shiv Shikhar S.
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What do you like best about Compressor?

Compressor is used with Final Cut Pro if we want a video from a project for multiple platforms with different settings and resolution. It is so easy and simple to use. We can just send the whole editing project to the compressor in just one click.

Drag and Drop the pre-defined presets or just make one according to your specific needs and then use it on your video by dragging and dropping. We can apply multiple presets on a single video and start the batch conversion/export in few simple steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

There are very less options to customize audio and video while using Final Cut Pro. Also, you are limited to the output export settings in Final Cut. This can be improved so that users get a more diverse control over their video formats and audio formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compressor is quite useful when we are working for a client who demands video and audios in various formats depending upon the platform they want to publish the video on. Compressor saves a lot of time and increases productivity by freeing and making Final Cut Pro available for other works simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Danny G.
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What do you like best about Compressor?

I like how the software is able to allow us to have additional outputs when using in conjunction with the Final Cut and Apple Motion versions. There are multiple outputs that you may use for the compressor. Just make sure that you select the correct one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

I wish there was a way to do more of a customization of the outputs for audio and video when using with Final Cut. You are limited to the outputs on compressor that you currenlty have in FC. At times depending ont he project you want to get a little more settings and I believe that is coming in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Compressor:

Make sure you understand the settings for the outputs that you require. If you get it wrong you will lose valuable time in the rendering process just to discover you picked the wrong output format. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

This gives us a way of having more outputs than what comes available with the other Apple video softwares. We use this with Apple Motion and Final Cut to get the most out of our video editing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rafa V.
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What do you like best about Compressor?

Easy to use, creating your presets and exporting, really fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Compressor?

Price, a little bit high. Higuer than order options in market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Compressor:

Perfect if you use other Apple Software like Final Cut Pro or Motion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Compressor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplify The exporting of Final Cut Pro Files in a convience way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.