• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Creating Chapters in FCP

  Posted by Jacob Picorale on May 30, 2007 at 3:26 am

  What burning software automatically detects chapter markers from a quicktime movie generated by FCP? I’m a bit confused, I rather not use iDVD because I do not want a menu. Thanks.

  Tom Wolsky replied 18 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  Steve Eisen

  May 30, 2007 at 3:27 am

  DVD Studio Pro

  Steve Eisen
  Eisen Video Productions
  Director-At-Large
  Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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  Jeff Carpenter

  May 30, 2007 at 6:14 am

  Well, you can make an iDVD project that auto-plays the video first. It has to return to a menu, but you can make it a black screen with just a “Play Again” link.

  If you need it to loop, go with DVD Studio Pro. If your video is longer than 2 hours, go with DVD Studio Pro and Compressor.

  But if both of those things aren’t true, iDVD will do just fine. Make chapter markers in FCP, export to a non-self-contatined Quicktime movie (with chapters enabled in the export) and drag that file onto the menu iDVD defaults to.

  Then go into the diagram mode and drag the video from 2nd play to 1st play. Then erase everything you don’t want off the menu.

  Fast, easy.
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  Jacob Picorale

  May 30, 2007 at 6:52 am

  Awesome! Thanks so much. I just did it and it worked. Greatly appreciated.
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  Bret Williams

  May 30, 2007 at 7:50 am

  You can also make iDVD autoplay and loop. But if you press menu, it goes to a menu. And shouldn’t it? And iDVD will respect the chapter markers.
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  Tom Wolsky

  May 30, 2007 at 9:44 am

  Choose a plain menu in iDVD. Put a black image as the background and you’ll just get black between the loops.

  All the best,

  Tom

  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

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