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Chapter Markers to mp4 File
I’m pretty new to Davinci Resolve.
I have a 3 hour timeline from a live stream that I recorded. I have gone through the timeline, tidied it up and added markers to each section. I would like to export the timeline to an mp4 file and, if possible, include the chapter markers so viewers can jump to the sections.
Is this possible with an mp4 file?
Is it possible to do straight from Resolve?
Thanks,
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I ended up exporting the mp4 file without markers, then following this guide https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=103232 to using the Edit Index to export the markers to a CSV file.
Then I had to use a spreadsheet to get rid of most of the columns and match the formatting of the information to what an app called Subler needed: https://bitbucket.org/galad87/subler/wiki/Chapter%20Text%20Format
Subler then opened the mp4 file, imported the text file with the marker information in, and then combined the two.
Then I had chapter markers that showed up in QuickTime player and VLC and on the Apple TV via Home Sharing.
It’s a shame it’s not something that can be done straight from DaVinci.
And it’s also a shame that YouTube then ignores the markers and I had to manually add them to the description. But at least I already had the information in the text file. I just had to delete the last decimal place of the timings for each marker as YouTube only uses HH:MM:SS
If there is a better way of doing this please let me know.
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Thanks for letting us know the workaround.
I’m thinking one can export to something like DNxHD with the markers, then transcode that in ffmpeg to h.264 or h.265. Keep in mind that mp4 is a container, not a codec. Both matter.
Glad you got something to work,
Robert
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I did look to see if I could export a ProRes file with chapter markers as I thought QuickTime would support it but I couldn’t see that option. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right place.
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