[Roger Parsons]

I found the downside of using “Music/Video Compilations” to stitch piecemeal videos together in DVD-Arc. You can’t add chapter markers! This is a big deal, since my customers expect to be able to skip forward or backward on their remotes to find a favorite scene, or to skip a laggy one. The only chapter markers in a “Music/Video Compilation” is the start of each next constituent file. And cutting up my source video files into pieces for each chapter is a super awkward workflow, saving no time, and creating extra coding opportunities for image degradation.

Unfortunately, this means I can’t really use this trick, which puts me back to re-exporting video into a single file. Fooey.

Screenshot of chapter markers allowed on a regular video:

And one of chapter markers button grayed out on a “Music/Video Compilation”:

Roger Parsons. Semi-pro video dabbler (my evenings/weekends job since ~2014), shooting mostly community theater and orchestra.

[Roger Parsons]

Tip to save any fellow nubes a few minutes of confusion/frustration:

You can’t drop your videos directly to the timeline in a “Music/Video Compilation”.
You drag them instead to the tab (at bottom) called “Compilation”.

If you drag them in the order that you want them to playback, then DVD-Arc automatically butts them up in that playback order:

If you try to drag videos directly to the timeline, you get an initially baffling stonewall (grayed out options and the “no” icon):

I can’t comment yet on the robustness of this technique, since I’m trying it now for the first time, but I have high hopes. If I hit speedbumps, I post about them.