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Exporting Chapter Markers out of FCPHD
Hi all-
I posted this to the DVDSP Forum but have not recv’d a response. maybe one of you guys can help if you are a FCPHD > Compressor > DVDFSP 4 user.
When I export a self-contained movie out of FCP that has chapter markers then go > Compressor2 > DVDSP 4, even though I’ve designated the markers in FCP as “chapters”, they show up in DVDSP as the word “maker 1,2 or 3, etc” on the DVDSP timeline.
Does this mean anything or is that the way it is?
Also, sometimes when I Simulate, I get a white bar above action safe that has a marker number and I’m not quite sure what I’m doing to make that happen. Once it is up there, I haven’t been able at this point to figure out how to get rid of it. Even though it is above the “action safe” line in the viewer, it appears in the NTSC monitor as a thin white line which means it is catching the bottom of that white marker line. In underscan on my NTSC monitor, the entire white line with the marker designation is fully there.
The manual hasn’t offered me a solution I understand.
Any insight as to these two issues? Thanks! Gary
G5/FCPHD/10.4.3/AJA I/o DVDSP4
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[Gary] “the entire white line with the marker designation is fully there.”
That’s the text track for the compression/chapter markers. FCP automatically generates compression markers in a sequence where there are transitions. This tells Compressor to pay special attention to these areas when it encodes to MPEG2 for the DVD. The text track won’t show up on the final product.
You can hide this text track by opening up your movie in Quicktime. Go to the Window menu and click on ‘show movie properties’. Uncheck the box beside the text track. The above method is for QT v.7. QT V.6 is done the same way but it’s in a different menu.
Next time when you export your movie from the FCP timeline choose to “Export with DVDSP Markers.” Although I’ve never exported markers that way, it may solve your visible text track without having to do it in Quicktime.
– Don
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Thanks, Don
That works. It appears I may have checked “all markers” (or whatever it says in the QT export window out of FCP). I will use the “DVDSP markers” drop down from now on. It appears the export of those markers, even though I think of them as chapters, appear in the DVDSP timeline as the word “marker”. I guess I won’t let that bother me.
Thanks again, unless you have more input. I appreciate the response.
Gary
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