Can’t export chapter markers

[Kenny Powerass]

I’m also having trouble getting the markers from FCP to DVDSP, but I had them in the right place to begin with: at the top of the timeline, chapter markers, etc…
I tried the ‘add embedded markers’ tip and it didn’t work.
I just tried exporting the markers as a text file. It exported them and I can see the markers in the text file, but when I import them into DVDSP I get a message that says: “Finished importing markers. 0 markers imported.”
My FCP chapter markers haven’t been working in DVDSP for months now, but I haven’t been making too many DVDs, so it wasn’t a big problem to just create them in DVDSP. Now I need it to work, though.
Any further ideas?
Thanks.

Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 Dual-Core Intel Xeon – 8GB DDR2 FB-DIMM – OS 10.6.3 – FCP 7.0.2

[Clay Walker]

Hi Kenny,

DVDSP is simply not liking the .txt file that FCP is exporting as I guess it is too complicated.

If you open your .txt file and edit the content down to something like this:

01:00:21:07 Chapter 1
01:04:53:18 Chapter 2
01:30:36:02 Chapter 3
02:00:49:15 Chapter 4
02:11:04:21 Chapter 5
02:16:41:21 Chapter 6
02:22:54:03 Chapter 7
02:36:45:00 Chapter 8

DVDSP will import it with no issues. Hope this helps.

clay

[Mike Fuller]

No semicolons (;). Use colons (:) only. First entry must be 00:00:00:00

[Mike Fuller]

Also, you can open the FCP exported marker list in Excel, then delete/rearrange columns until it’s in the correct style. Save as text file, then import in DVDSP.