Compressor

Compressor is a media compression and encoding application from Apple that was originally included as part of the Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio suites for Mac OS X.

History
Compressor was previously bundled with Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro in the Final Cut Studio suite; it was also bundled with Logic Pro and MainStage in the Logic Studio suite.

After those suites were discontinued with the releases of Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X in 2011, Compressor 4.0 and new versions of many of the other the apps became available separately through the Mac App Store. Apple continues to include Compressor in a suite for teachers and students called Pro Apps Bundle for Education.

On November 12, 2020, Compressor was updated to version 4.5 with native support for Macs based on Apple M1 processors.

Articles

 * Compressor 3.0.1 by Gary Adcock at Macworld (2007-07-08)