What is this button? And how did it get there? (FCPX DVD Menu)

[Bret Williams]

Subtitles on/off?

[James Taylor]

That’s what I was thinking, but I didn’t do any subtitles. And I don’t see any way to select that for the DVD. What would cause it to show up? Why on some of my videos, but not others?

[Robin S. kurz]

It’s for subtitles/closed captions, yes. It’s (nearly) the exact same symbol you see in the Apple DVD Player for subs and CCs btw. A dead giveaway. And since you can’t actually (officially) make subtitles/CCs in FCP for DVDs, it’ll obviously never be active. It’s merely a “leftover” GUI item from days past that is grouped with the chapter button. So any DVD with chapters will have that (useless) button also. Nothing spectacular, just laziness. 🙂

– RK

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[James Taylor]

Robin,

Thanks for the info. That prompted me to do some more testing. Looks like that little button IS active! When I turn in on, my chapter markers show up as sub titles!!! That must be a bug? Here is a screen shot:

[Matt Galuszewski]

James,

When using the SHARE menu to create a DVD there is a check box under the SETTINGS tab which allows you to include chapter marker text as subtitles.

If you left this checked then you are experiencing the correct behaviour so I wouldn’t call it a bug.

Page 448 of the manual.

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1666/en_US/final_cut_pro_x-10.1.2-user_guide.pdf

[Robin S. kurz]

[Matt Galuszewski] “When using the SHARE menu to create a DVD there is a check box under the SETTINGS tab which allows you to include chapter marker text as subtitles.”

Doh! I forgot about that. The SugarFX Subtitles plugin actually uses this (quite brilliantly), yes. My bad. 😛

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI92Jrwz4zk

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[James Taylor]

Matt,

Thanks! I should have realized that. I thought that box needed to be selected for the chapter markers to appear in the DVD. Should have read it closer. Looks like the chapter markers appear in the DVD automatically.

JT

[Robin S. kurz]

[James Taylor] “Looks like the chapter markers appear in the DVD automatically.”

If exporting directly to DVD/BD from FCP, yes. Otherwise, with other export formats, no. Not without the respective checkbox in the (then different) settings panel.

– RK

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[Bret Williams]

There’s only two ways to make a DVD that looks that way and the settings panels are the same and both create chapters just fine. Either from Compressor or FCP X directly.

And as others have pointed out, subtitles work too.

And as you pointed out you haven’t made a DVD or other optical media in your shop for 5 years. Why are you on this thread again? 🙂

JK

[Robin S. kurz]

[Bret Williams] “There’s only two ways to make a DVD that looks that way and the settings panels are the same and both create chapters just fine.”

Never mind that I wrote “with other export formats“, IOW H.264, ProRes et al. NOT to DVD. In which case the settings panel IS different, sorry. And in that case you have to explicitly activate embedding of chapters, as opposed to when outputting directly to DVD/BD.

– RK

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