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Chapter Markers –
I have placed Chapter markers in my FCP project – that are not being seen by iDVD.
I put the markers in by selecting the video so that it shows up in the slug viewer – pressing m and pressing m again – naming the chapter and choosing add chapter.
When I exported the program from FCP I choose the option include chapter markers – however when I drag the file into iDVD there are no chapters to be seen.
Any ideas.
Steve
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2 Replies
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Ok, Chapter marks not translating. Open your Quicktime reference movie or Self-contained movie you exported from FCP in Quicktime Pro. If you see the chapter marks in the Quicktime interface (as a popup) you have something wrong with your iDVD. Trash iDVD prefs and if that doesn’t work, try reinstalling iDVD. If you don’t see the chapters in Quicktime then the markers are not in the timeline but imbedded in the clip. Are the markers green? In the dialog box for the markers, Do they have the < > marks around the text chapter? Chapter marks can only be output from the timeline! Hope this helps-
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Matthew Brunn said:
“Chapter marks can only be output from the timeline!”I would like to expand on Matthew’s very correct statement. A very common problem with people putting in markers in their output is they put markers on clips instead on on the timeline. A marker on a clip shows up as a pink marker on the clip in the video track, whereas a timeline (or sequence marker) shows up as a green marker in the timecode area above the set of V tracks. No clip markers are exported when you export this sequence, only sequence markers are exported. When adding markers to your sequence, ensure that no clip is selected first, to ensure the markers go on the sequence and not the clip.
After you’ve exported the QuickTime reference movie from FCP, open it in QuickTime Player Pro and extract the text track and export this as a text track. you can then open this is TextEdit to see the chapter markers if they are there.
Bill Lee
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