move all chapter markers at once?

[Andreas Kiel]

“copy paste” doesn’t work with markers. Additionally “chapter markers” have to be at sequence level to be considered as “chapter markers”.

Andreas

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[Bret Williams]

I meant you can copy and paste the slugs obviously. But if you can’t use chapter markers on clips, then it won’t work. It does let you create chapter markers on clips.

[Andreas Kiel]

Bret,

I understood your intention and the idea is good.
But unfortunately it doesn’t work with the current version of FCP.

Chapter markers on clips will be just ignored on export for DVPSP (or Compressor) as they are not on sequence level.
They will be in the XML as “chapter markers” and with some knowledge about XML you’re able to “lift them up” to sequence level, but that includes a lot of computation work as you always have retrieve the relative marker timing regarding to the clips and convert that to an absolute level regarding the sequence.

If people are interested I can upload a PDF which show some more details about the method I described earlier – it’s easier than it sounds.

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Pat Defilippo]

Hello,

Given your situation, where you simply want to insert whatever length of video BEFORE your first clip, why not simply do this:

1) Start a new Sequence
2) Edit your new video at the start
3) Nest your existing Sequence after that

You will be able to see the Markers from your original Sequence within the nested clip in the new Sequence. You would have to transfer them to the new timeline from that nested clip for them to go thru Compressor to DVDSP (or wherever), but at least they’re where you originally put them.

Does that work quickly and easily enough for your specific need? It’s a little messy having two sequences where you should only need one, but it’s probably faster and less work than “Shift ~” (which I also use, in most situations).
-Pat

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[Kent Beeson]

This is a good thought, but how do you transfer the nested markers up to the timeline?

K

[Pat Defilippo]

Kent,

Unfortunately, manually and one at a time is the only way to do it. However, the new timeline will “snap” to the markers in your nested sequence and you can just hit “M M” from there for each one.
-Pat

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[Kent Beeson]

OK, Thanks for the help

K

[Andreas Kiel]

To make those things easier in the future:
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/maM/maM.zip

It’s a small freeware with a lot of stupid dialogs (that’s the price) which will move any amount of sequence markers in a sequence XML within a second.
The app doesn’t take care about the kind of markers nor about the 99 chapter limit of DVDSP.
You have to export the sequence as XML from FCP and then re-import the converted one (just double-click that file in Finder or drag the file to the FCP browser window).
The original FCP XML also can be dragged to the app’s icon to convert it.

Regards
Andreas

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https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Alexander Kallas]

If you are going to DVDSP then just move the markers in the m2v track,
which DVDSP lets you do

Cheers
Alexander

[Andreas Kiel]

Sure you can do, as same as in FCP.

But how do move all at once?

Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools