Compressor Quick-Reference Guide

I got Apple Pro Training Series: Compressor Quick-Reference Guide since there has been an explosion of works converting from one digital format to another, especially DV to DVD and DV to QuickTime for online previews.

This book is basically an updated manual for Compressor, with color pages in compact form. I can't really say that I learned something from this short book that's less than 150 pages long, since I've been using this program extensively by poking around, playing with settings. Like the book said, compression is almost an art form, that merits another book for the discussion and exploration. If you were expecting more technical aspects of compressions that Compressor offers, you won't find it here.

However, if you were looking for Compressor manual that Apple neglected to update since they moved up to 5.1, and new to Compressor and compression techniques, it's a great book to get started.