Compressor 4 - Stage 2: Assigning Settings and Destinations

To assign a setting and a destination to a job

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Choose a setting for your source media file jobs in any of the following ways.

• To assign different settings to different jobs: Drag settings from the Settings tab to

individual jobs in the Batch window.

Select one or more
(two in this case) settings
to apply to the job.

A job with a source
media file in the
Batch window

• To assign a single setting to multiple selected jobs: Select the jobs (source media files) in

the Batch window and choose Target > New Target With Setting. This opens a settings
selection dialog over the Batch window.

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Click Add to assign
the settings to the
selected jobs.

Select the settings
to apply to the
selected jobs.

Select the jobs in
the Batch window.

Choose one or more settings, using the disclosure triangles to reveal individual settings,
and click Add. The chosen settings are assigned to all the selected jobs.

New targets are added
for each setting you
drag to the job.

You can also choose Edit > Select All to select all the jobs before applying the settings.
See

Creating, Previewing, and Modifying Settings

for more information on settings,

and

Finalizing Jobs and Submitting Batches

for more information about working with

jobs and targets.

The next step is to set the destination. By default, the destination is set to Source, which
writes the output files to the same folder as the source files originated from. You can
change the destination for organization purposes or to take advantage of larger and
faster hard disks.

Note: You can choose a default destination from the Compressor Preferences window.
See

Setting Compressor Preferences

for more information.

You can set the destination for each individual target or for a selected group of targets.

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