1280 x 720, if I open this with QuickTime you'll see we have our HD video, okay, so there we go that is job chaining. What job chaining does is help to improve your workflow and it helps improve the time that’s going to take to get things done. Major helpful thing if you work on other big jobs.
Now, let's talk about droplets. I have this is a stock droplets AIC HD 720p24 YouTube. I just renamed it, okay. You can go through here and it’s up here. Let me see if I can find it HDV, here we go under Apple Codec. Here is Apple Intermediate Codec HD 720p24. As you can see it’s 1280x720, this is not going to give you the smallest file size in the world but this is going to make you a good example. So I'm going to use this Apple intermediate Codec, of course you can go through and change and make your own custom settings like I have here. Here's 8.264 HD 1280x720, okay. I've made the custom, so let's go back up here and find our stock codec here.
Here's Apple Intermediate Codec. Let us say I want to make this easy and accessible, okay. I know I'm going to be encoding a lot of videos to it so I'm going to select it and I'm gong to go up here and hit this middle button. This is your make selection of droplet button, when I hit that button this little dialog box is going to come up, it’s going to ask you what you want to call it, where you want it to be put at and where the movies that get encoded, where you want movies that are encoded to go, okay. So choose destination for droplet results, so this is where right here the movies are going to go that you finished encoding and this right here where is where you going to save your actual droplet do.
So I'm going to save my actual droplet to my desktop and I'm going to have the droplet results save to my desktop as well. I want to say save, okay, I want to go in here and click compressor because we aren’t going to need it. Now, as you can see what happens here is you look I got this little symbol here. Apple Intermediate Codec HD 720p24, as you notice compressor is not open. So now I'm going to take my test movie, my original movie, which is right here and I'm going to drag and drop it right on top of that droplet. As you can see I have my droplets which I have several of them down here in my doc all I have to do is drag my movie down to the implement the doc that I want to use.
You can see I have an H264 HD, HDV 8264 HD, an HDV 1280x720, an H264 some filter supply applied and my Apple Intermediate Codec, I haven’t done either doc. You don’t have to keep them in the doc you can keep in your movies folder. I'm going to take my test three. I'm just drag and drop it right on top of this droplet that we made.
Now there's a window that comes up that says processing and it will give you a time, okay. Three, two, one and we’re ready then this other droplet box will come up. If you have a cluster you can choose a cluster I have Erick Mix Mac Pro Cluster but usually when I'm working with droplets I just use this computer. You can use your cluster if you want to there's no reason not to. The destination this is where the destination of the encoded movie is going to be, okay. We don’t want to worry about the template and then here is our settings and all the information and that’s that, so the only thing you really need to d about this is set you cluster and set your destination for the file and hit submit.
I have the batch monitor already open, if it isn’t already open it will open on its own I think and if it don’t open on its own if you hit submit and it don’t look like anything is happening don’t freak out something is happening, give it time and eventually your movie will get done in coding, you just need to be patient. I usually just have my batch monitor open and ready to go when I use my droplets. So I hit submit, there it goes, there's my movie automatically it fires it up, here it is in my batch monitor as you can see its encoding and I can actually close my batch monitor if I want.
As you can see compressor is closed, compressor is not open and our movie is done encoded. So what will encode, droplet will encode your movie without ever having to open compressor. So there is our movie, you can open it up with Real Player and we will be able to see it as is. Pretty good looking film if you ask me, pretty colorful, pretty saturated and it looks great. Apple Intermediate Codec HD 720p is a wonderful looking codec but the file size are quite big, the file size is quite big.
If I encode the same movie into H.264—I drop that movie onto my H.264 droplet that was in my doc and I'm going to click ok, submit and through the magic movie making I want to head in encoded the H.264 mean to edit it up and here's our Apple Intermediate Codec, here's our H.264. As you can see the Apple Intermediate Codec is much more saturated, look at the greens. You probably might not be tell over YouTube I'm not sure but you can see how much lighter the H.264 looks compared to the outline of the codec.
Now, I can get the same results with filters, I can apply some gamma correction and stuff inside the compressor, which is why you have seen that droplet for H.264 with filters it will give me the same output. Now the reason I like to use H.264 even though AIC look better is here is the 13 meg version of this movie for AIC and H.264 you can see is 8 meg, so it’s a lot smaller and this is the H.264 HDV. So if you can use the Apple Intermediate Codec version for some smaller videos right but if you need to keep it really, really tight use H.264.
So I hope this is explained droplets, I hope this has maybe give you some information to speed up your workflow in compressor a little bit. I hope you’ve learned something. We’ll see you next time.
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