Lost Compressor Presets

I was playing in Compressor to make a Droplet. The preset I used no longer shows in Compressor.
Any ideas how to get it back?
Thanks

Are you talking about one of the Apple presets that ship with it? If so, they're in the application bundle so you'd either have to reinstall, copy Compressor.app from another computer with the same version, or update if you don't already have the latest version.
To extract a setting from inside the droplet, ctrl-click it and select Show Package Contents. Navigate to Contents/Resources/Settings and there it will be.

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That's correct - so Jeff, are you ever wrong? - the only time Frame Controls default to On is when you're doing an HD-to-SD DVD downconversion. Even then, Resize is set to Better (though that's typically good enough for most scenarios) and everything else (Deinterlace, Retime) are set to the Fastest settings.
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