| Compressor | |
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 Compressor v4.5 on macOS 10.15.7 screenshot and logo | |
| Developer | Apple Inc. |
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | macOS14.6 or later |
| Type | Data compression |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | apple.com/finalcutpro/compressor |
Compressor is a video and audio mediacompression and encoding application formacOS made byApple.
The application used to be available as part ofFinal Cut Pro,Soundtrack Pro,Motion, andDVD Studio Pro, and after Apple combined its professional media products intoFinal Cut Studio andLogic Studio bundles, Compressor became part of these bundles.
Once the bundle model was abandoned by Apple in 2011,[2][3] a new major version of Compressor (Compressor 4) was released as a separate product on theMac App Store for $49.99.[4]
Compressor is used for encoding video and audio media in multiple formats, includingHEVC (H.265), MPEG-1,MPEG-2 forDVD, QuickTime .mov, MPEG-4 (Simple Profile), MPEG-4 H.264 and optional (third Party and often commercial) QuickTime Exporter Components to export to Windows Media. Among its other features are the ability to convert fromNTSC toPAL and vice versa, and the ability to upscale fromstandard-definition video tohigh-definition video with feature detail detection to prevent serious quality losses. Filters and effects, such asde-noising or timestamp generation, can be applied to video during the conversion process, and the video can be cropped.
Compressor could be used with the discontinuedQmaster forclustering, or configured as a server to work on the jobs submitted by other computers on thenetwork.
With its update to 4.2 in April 2015, Apple added performance upgrades, as well as the ability to use Compressor to produce a compliant package to submit video content for distribution to theiTunes Store.[5]
Compressor supports creating files forBlu-ray discs.[6]