You’re on a deadline, of course, when Compressor decides to crap on you. Of course. What do you do? You launch Qmaster preferences, and there isn’t a button to restart it… or is there? Jim Geduldick over at FinalCutUser shows a couple ways of troubleshooting when Compressor goes south.

Watch the video tutorial here.

Metadata is very helpful in organizing the masses of media we have. And here’s a cool tip from Final Cut User on how to do that in Compressor. So you’re able to export your videos, and people opening it up in iTunes or another program will automatically have the author, title, keywords, etc., fields filled in.

Watch the video tutorial here.

From Creative Cow-

In this Final Cut video tutorial, Richard Harrington uses Compressor to teach how to compress a video clip for use on an iPod or in iTunes. This opens up video podcasting or the transferring of video files in a widely recognized portable format. Richard shows which settings to use and explains how to export from Final Cut Pro to get the file ready for Compressor

Watch the video tutorial here.

As Nathan Beaman puts it in this tutorial, “There could be any number of reason that you may be stuck with an FLV as a source file, none of them are good, as far I am concerned.” This little trick makes editing those FLVs a bit easier on Final Cut- and you.

Read the tutorial here.

Slow motion is useful for a whole slew of effects. Alex Gollner explains why sending the file to Compressor is a good idea, due to the way Final Cut handles speed changes. (This tutorial doesn’t cover Optical Flow retiming, which is available in Motion, and I haven’t seen a comparison.)

Read the tutorial and watch the examples here. Alex also shows some more examples, as well as some unexpected results using Compressor here.

From Creative Cow-

Final Cut Studio’s Compressor has many pre-existing settings that allow you to start compressing your project immediately. If you find yourself making the same alterations this tutorial can save you time. CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith will show you how to: create custom settings, create custom settings from scratch, create groups of settings and how to delete settings.

Watch the video tutorial here.