How do you move Compressor 3.05 settings from one Mac to another?

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How do you move Compressor 3.05 settings from one Mac to another?

How do you move settings from one Mac to another?

I have Compressor 3.05 installed on two Intel Macs: a MacPro tower and a MacBook Aluminum. I created a new setting on the MacBook, and can see it in Library -> App Support -> Compressor as "<name>.setting" Then I moved to the Mac Pro for speed and created a few more settings. I copied these settings from the Mac Pro libary and put them in the MacBook library; restarted Compressor on the MacBook but still cannot see those presets from within Compressor. I hate to re-create all those settings, but I do move between both computers depending on what I am doing.

What am I missing? Thanks.

MacBook Aluminum (Late 2008); Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on May 19, 2009 3:02 PM

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Thomas Berglund

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Nov 15, 2010 3:43 PM in response to Scratch

To copy single settings.

1. Drag & Drop your setting from the Compressor Settings window to i.e. the desktop
2. Copy .setting file to an other Mac
3. Drag & Drop the .setting file(s) over to the Settings window in Compressor

To copy settings groups (folders)

1. Go to */Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/Compressor*
2. Copy the settings group folder you want to your i.e. the desktop
3. Make sure Compressor is not open on the other Mac
4. Copy the settings group folder to the same location on the other Mac
5. Open Compressor

Hope this helps 🙂

Message was edited by: jeffd55

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Scratch Author

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Nov 15, 2010 3:43 PM in response to Thomas Berglund

Thank you so much.

(So simple, yet I could not find that info anywhere. My searching skills are failing me, apparently.)

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