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Q: Will Compressor 4 work with Final Cut 7?

Need to purchase Compressor, I think, so I can add closed captioning to a program I'm editing.

I guess my first question is, can I do that with Compressor 3? If not, I'm going to buy Compressor 4, will it work ok with Final cut 7?

 

Thank you

Posted on Aug 14, 2015 5:30 AM

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Q: Will Compressor 4 work with Final Cut 7?

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  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Aug 14, 2015 6:48 AM in response to SPC Media Production
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    Aug 14, 2015 6:48 AM in response to SPC Media Production

    Compressor 4,2 is an improvement over Compressor 3.5 in many areas, but sub titles is not one of those areas – that capability is unchanged.

     

    And eggier is no inter-ooerability with legacy versions of FCP and recent versions of Compressor. There is, of course, no reason why a self-contained movie can't be exported from FCP 7 and then imported into Compressor 4,2 for processing.

     

    Russ

  • by BenB,

    BenB BenB Aug 18, 2015 2:09 PM in response to Russ H
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    Aug 18, 2015 2:09 PM in response to Russ H

    Compressor only lets you import a properly formatted closed caption file, which it will match to the video being transcoded.  That's it.

     

    If you do this a lot, look into MacCaption.