How to Use Final Cut Pro Compressor to Compress Smaller Videos

As an inseparable element of Apple's video production suite, Final Cut Pro Compressor is an app you need to separately purchase at $49.99 from App Store. It is a powerful video encoder that cooperates seamlessly with Final Cut Pro and Motion to export projects in various formats using customized settings. The most amazing merit of it is that you can export multiple copies of a project using different presets, for example, one for YouTube, one as MP4, and one as MP3. Now let's see how to use Final Cut Pro Compressor to export videos in small sizes.

Part 1: How to Reduce Video Size in Final Cut Pro Compressor

You can follow the steps below to downsize a video in Final Cut Pro Compressor.

Steps to Compress Videos in Final Cut Pro Compressor

Step 1: Make sure the video you want to compress is already imported to Final Cut Pro and selected. Then click File in the top left and select Send to Compressor.

Step 2: Final Cut Pro Compressor should show up now. You can drag the presets from the sidebar on the left to the task section and drop them. It allows you to add more than one preset to produce multiple versions of the video.

Step 3: Click on a preset you just added, then you can edit its detailed settings on the right of the interface. Here you can reduce the bitrate under the Video tab to reduce the size of the export video.

Step 4: When you finished the settings of the adopted presets, click the Start Batch button at the bottom of the window to let the program start handling the tasks. Then you can see the progress of the task(s).

That's how to use Final Cut Pro Compressor. As you see, it's not very easy to downsize a video with this compressor, and the export size is not intuitive. Is there any better tool that can be used to compress videos more efficiently? Of course. Read on to learn more about it.

Part 2: A More Convenient Way to Compress a Video

If you want the quickest solution to downsize a large video, Final Cut Pro Compressor is not your best choice. AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate's video compressor can do the job even more efficiently. It enables you to compress a video in just 3 super easy steps without considering confusing parameters.

Key Features:

• 1. Reduce video size without any effort or expertise.
• 2. Downsize the video file to any size you specify.
• 3. Render the compressed video 70x faster with hardware accelerating.
• 4. Preview the export video before you start the compression.

Ease of Downsizing a Video in AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate

Step 1: Launch the program and go to the Toolbox tab for the Video Compressor in it. Then click the "+" button and import a video.

Step 2: In the Video Compressor interface, reduce the video size by adjust the Size slide bar or directly enter your desired export size. You can also decide the export video format and resolution using the corresponding drop-down menus.

Step 3: Preview the result using the Preview button. If the quality is satisfying, choose the output format. (Check the compressed format here.)

Finally, click Compress to get the compressor to start working. When the rendering is finished, you can find the exported file in the destination folder.

Part 3: FAQs about Final Cut Pro Compressor

Conclusion

Final Cut Pro Compressor seamlessly integrates with Final Cut Pro to export your projects. In this post, we talked about how to reduce video size using this app. Honestly, though called compressor, Final Cut Pro Compressor is not focused on video compression but more on distributing multiple encoding tasks with different presets. If you need a convenient way to compress your videos, try AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate instead.