Final Cut Tip o' the Day 5/17 - Droplets for Compressor

If you find yourself spending a lot of time in Compressor encoding your videos, you can use droplets to automatically compress and save your finished movie to a specified location. All you have to do is either use an existing Compressor setting, or you can make your own custom settings in the Settings tab. Once you have done that you can turn that setting into a mini application called a droplet. When you drag your finished full res movie onto the droplet, it automatically encodes and saves your movie , as a background process, without ever opening Compressor.

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Watch the movie for a detailed tutorial. I talk really fast, so you may have to watch it more than once.

Enjoy!