move all chapter markers at once?

[Kevin Monahan]

Not possible in FCP. Sorry.

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[Kent Beeson]

Well then there must be an efficient way or work around to move these guys down…can’t believe FCP can’t do this, but then again…

K

[Kevin Monahan]

Kent,
FCP markers’ functionality has not been improved since FCP 1, save for adding chapter markers, compression markers and scoring markers. Color coding them, click and dragging them, moving them en masse (basically, act like markers in Avid) are things we’re still waiting for.

Here’s a thought: perhaps there is a way to do so in DVDSP?

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[Rennie Klymyk]

[Kevin Monahan] “Here’s a thought: perhaps there is a way to do so in DVDSP?”

DVDSP places chapter points on keyframes only. FCP is any frame.

How about adding a chapter marker at the end of the 30″ clip and just not linking to it in DVDSP. You should actually be able to delete the new one in DVDSP.

“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.

[Kent Beeson]

Thanks for all replies – I’ve got about 45 chapter markers throughout the program- I’m doing other things at the moment but when I get to it, I wonder how to copy a marker, then simply paste it in the proper place?

K

[Ben Scott]

I had to do the same thing myself as the guy I was working with insisted on reediting, then reauthoring

remember that dvd studio if linked up to your chapter markers (e.g. from a scene selection menu) cannot recognise the new chapter markers once you bring in a new asset, it is set to the first chpt markers and the I frame they exist on. I had to keep relinking over 50 links in dvd studio around 5 or more times because of this and it is really poor but totally makes sense. dvd studio isnt reading xml it is reading i frames which have to be set up before hand if encoding in compressor

my best method to move chapter markers is move playhead in front of marker ask it to reposition marker which is shift `

if moving markers back in time you need to edit marker and type in the timecode you are moving to (this is best got from going to the correct frame and copy pasting the timecode)

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[Kent Beeson]

Thanks very much! – that works well enough, shift tilde – better than redoing everything – although yes, I know the DVD SP markers won’t update – have to simply throw out that old MPEG 2 version in DVD SP 4 and reimport the new updated marker version of the MPEG 2 video (if I understand correctly)?

Thank you

K

[Matthew Nelson]

This solution will only work if you have room at the head of your sequence and your markers are attached to the sequence and not the clips. It goes something like this if your sequence starts at 58;30;00 and program starts on the 1 hour. You can duplicate the sequence and resent the starting timecode to 59;00;00. Then shift your media to the new 1 hour location and all your markers will shift forward 30sec as the program shifts back 30sec.

Matt

[Andreas Kiel]

After a long time I lurked here a bit.

Simple answer for this question- you can use XML and some clicks and fantasy ( though 45 markers may be not worth the effort)

Below roughly how it works:
Export the sequence as XML. Open that file in TextEdit. Go down to the end of the file and you’ll find ““. Copy from the last line up to the first of all those entries – starting with “” in this “row of similar looking lines. Paste that into a new plain text document and save. Import that new document ino EXCEL or FMP or whatever spreadsheet.
The marker timing will have it’s own column as FCP uses tabs to make the XML more human readable. Now create a formula for a new column which says “‘markerTime column’ +50” (or whatever amount of frames) with no result if ‘markerTime column’ is empty . Now export the spreadsheet including the new column but excluding the old markerTime column as tab text.
Open that file in TextEditor and copy all. Select the original XML (with all the ‘markers’ still selected and paste. Save the XML.
Then import that XML into FCP – and voila all markers are shifted.

As said this doesn’t make too much sense with only a few markers – but it’s a good exercise :).

Andreas Kiel

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[Bret Williams]

Just a thought, why not add chapter markers to a transparent slug(s) and not the sequence. Then you can move, copy, paste the markers as you see fit with standard copy paste and edit controls.