Chapter Markers for Play All in DVD SP 4

I have a "Final Sequence" which consists of 6 sequences. I know I have to put the Ch. markers in the Final sequence to show up in DVD SP 4. The problem is that it's easier to put them into the individual sequences.
So, can I import all the sequences individually into DVDSP4 and make a button that will Play All 6 sequences just as if they were one long sequence?

this is quite common and easy. make one long sequence in fcp, set your chapter markers and end jump markers in preparation for a dvd with "Play All" and "Chapter Menu" menu selections. it'll require the use of stories in dvd sp but they're rather easy and navigation is quick and clean.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/stories_dvdspstone.html
as this is a query for dvd studio pro, i'd advise you to search for "play all" in the dvd studio pro forum. lotsa answers.

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Chapter Markers for Apple TV movies

After a search, I saw a brief discussion about using Handbrake to set chapter markers for Apple TV.
But is there a way to set chapters with iLife apps or QT Pro? With my home movies, the Apple TV remote button ">>" advances to each scene I captured with the Canon camcorder. At least it's not random, but dvd-style chapters would be nicer.
I realize QT removes chapters from iMovie projects, but I'm wondering if anyone has a workaround.

To create a chapter list in QT Pro:
1. In a text editor or word processor, type your list of chapters and save the document as plain text.
2. Make each item very short (preferably one word but no more than two or three words) and separate each item with a carriage return.
3. In QuickTime Player, choose File > Open File, select the text file, and click Open.
4. Choose File > Export. In the Export pop-up menu, choose "Text to Text." In the Use pop-up menu, choose "Text with Descriptors."
5. Click Options. In the Text Export Settings dialog, select "Show Text, Descriptors, and Time"; select "Show time relative to start of Movie"; and set fractions of seconds to 1/30 (the default is 1/1000).
6. Click OK, then click Save to create a text file with descriptors.
7. Open the exported list in your text editor or word processor, and open the target movie in QuickTime Player.
8. Choose Window > Show Movie Info.
9. In QuickTime Player, drag the playhead on the timeline to find the first point in the movie where you want to begin a new chapter.
10. Use the Right and Left Arrow keys to step forward or backward a frame at a time as needed. Note the current time in the Properties window.
11. In the text file, find the first chapter title and change the timestamp just before that chapter title to the time you noted in the Properties window.
12. The timestamp might now read, for example, [00:01:30.15], meaning that selecting the first chapter title will jump the viewer 1 minute, 30 seconds, and 15 frames into the movie.
13. Repeat steps 9 through 11 until you've identified all the places in the movie that correspond to the chapter divisions and you've entered the proper timestamps in the text file.
14. Change the last timestamp (the one after the last chapter title in the text file) to match the duration of the movie.
15. Save the text file and import it into QuickTime Player.
16. QuickTime creates a new movie with just a text track.
17. Choose Edit > Select All, choose Edit > Copy, and close the movie.
18. Click in the main movie, choose Edit > Select All, then choose Edit > "Add to Movie."
19. QuickTime adds the text track to the movie.
20. Choose Window > Show Movie Properties.
21. In the Properties window, select the video or audio track you want to associate with the chapter track, and click Other Settings.
22. Choose the main video or audio track from the Chapters pop-up menu.
23. If you have a movie with alternate subtitle or sound tracks, you can create multiple chapter lists in different languages and set the appropriate subtitle or sound track as the owner of each chapter list. The chapter list will change to match the selected language.
24. Select the text track, then select "Preload this track" (to make the chapter track load first).
25. Deselect the new text track so that it doesn't display on top of the video.
26. The new track will still function as a chapter track.
27. Save the movie as a self-contained movie.
28. You can now choose a chapter title from the pop-up menu to the right of the timeline.

Exporting QT with Chapter markers for iDVD

When I export a QT with Chapter markers for iDVD I get one movie file then a number of "AV" files - what are these and what do I do with them?
workflow as follows:
1.Place chapter markers in timeline using mm the Add Chapter Markers
2. set in/out points in timeline
3. export quicktime movie
4. select include Chapter Markers and include audio/video
5. do NOT select recompress all frames
6. DO select make self contained movie.
7. Open exported movie file in Quicktime and chapter markers are present
8. import ONLY the movie file to iDVD (NOT the AV files?) and answer yes to read all chapter markers
9. burn seems to work fine but when I playback on DVD player there is digital stuttering in the picture
Any ideas on how to remedy the problem?
thanks in advance
patrick

The project is only 75 minutes. Do think it is the codec that iDVD is using that is causing the stutter. I assumed that it always encodes using MPG2.
Any idea what the AV files are?
When I export as an uncompressed DV stream the file is 15 GB.
When I export as uncompressed QT I get one file (movie) at 2.5 GB then
5 more "AV" files that are each 2.5 as well. So when I import the movie file without the AV files am I missing something?
Should I look into DVD Studio Pro? I have version 1.5 but I am fairly unfamiliar with it.

End jump for Play All not working

Below is my question on an earlier post, followed by an answer from a forum member, which I thought was the solution. I followed his suggestion to link the play all button to Track 1, and then clicked in the track to get the track inspector and linked the end jump to Menu 1. It must have worked in the simulator, because I marked Steve's answer 'solved', but now when I play the discs I've burned, the play all button plays only the first selection and then return to the menu. Same thing happens in the simulator.
So please tell me how to get that play all button to really play all. It's driving me crazy, and I have to recall 2 discs I sent out to clients so far. If someone could walk me through it, I'd really appreciate it, thanks!
MY POST: I have 9 markers on the track for 8 selections, the 9th was added so that the track would play all the way through when the Play All button on the menu was clicked. When the user clicks on any one selection it plays through and returns to the menu. I can't get the Play to do that, it just stops at the end and the user has to click play to get the menu back on the screen. Again, the manual on page 490 mentions setting end jumps and says the end jump for the last marker is not linked to any targets, and must be set yourself. So I have tried several times to do this in an number of ways as suggested by the book. No go.
Again, simplest possible explanation, please, as I've used a lot of time on this, and have lost most of my concentration and patience(!)
thanks
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Steven Cohen
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Re: End Jump Setting for Play All
Posted: Aug 19, 2008 1:43 AM in response to: Keith Rodan
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Link the "Play All" button to the track, not the first chapter marker. Then click on the track. In the inspector, settings for the track will appear. For end jump, select menu 1. (or whatever you want it to jump to.) If you want each segment on the track to play individually and then jump back to the first menu, easiest way to do that is with stories. Check manual or do search of this forum on ways to do that. Hope that helps.
Steve

Hi Keith - there are several ways to do this. By far the simplest is to use stories, but there are two ways of doing that, too.
Here's one way:
Make sure you have the 8 markers that you need, and make sure that each marker has got an end jump on it to return you to your menu and the button for that section. Now add a single story and add ALL of the markers to that (drag them over from the story editor window left to right). You'll notice that the markers are labelled 'Chapter 1 Entry', which means you are not adding the end jumps to the story... each marker will play and then go on to the next in the sequence, ignoring any end jumps you have already put on the markers.
Now set your play all button on your menu to go to the story container (NOT chapter 1 inside the story). All you other buttons should point to the relevant markers on the track and not in the story.
Set the end jump for the story to go back to the 'play all' button on your menu, and set the menu call for the story to do the same. You can set the menu call for the markers as you want, too.
You should now have a single track, eight markers with end jumps, a single story with 8 chapter entry markers in it and a disc that alows you to play a single marker or the entire lot.
The alternative way to do this is to add your 8 markers as before (no need for 9), make sure there are NO end jumps on the markers and then add 8 stories. Put one marker into each story and set the end jumps on each story to go back to the relevant menu button. Set the menu calls for each story to do the same.
Now set your single chapter play menu buttons to the relevant story container (and NOT the chapter inside it), and your pay all button to the track itself. Set the end jump and menu call for the track to go where you want them to.
There are then at least two other ways to do this using scripts... but I figure these here should cover what you need right now! I'd recommend using the first method - it's quicker to set up and more simple to implement.

Chapter Markers for Apple TV Exports

Hi
Can't seem to export chapter markers for my Apple TV video exports. They are green on the timeline, but don't show up on the final Apple TV m4v.
Does this just not work, or am I doing something stupid?
Many thanks in advance.
Mark

Tom
So if you want any compression at all, deviate from Quicktime movie for any reason, you lose all your chapter marker ability. Seems pretty lame to me. Is that true for FCP, or just FCE?
Guess I will just have to use the fast forward on my remote.
BTW, got your book and it was very helpful.
Thanks
Mark

HOW TO ADD CHAPTER MARKERS FOR IDVD

how do you add chapter markers for iDVD import?

FCP does not have that capability. You can add chapter markers in Compressor, but that would be another recompression step, and you can dd them in GarageBand. Perhaps it might be best to add them in iDVD. Can you add them in iDVD?
It would be an excellent feature request to have them in FCP, though I'm not sure how they would implement it.

DVD Studio Pro - Story for "Play All"?

I want to make a DVD with four videos on it. The user goes to the menu and selects either Video 1, Video 2, Video 3 or Video 4. When each video is finished, the user is returned to the menu.
I also want a "play all" button, so that the user can watch all four videos from start to finish.
This is what I did, and it didn't work:
I made a single track, and put all four videos on it. There was a chapter marker on the timeline at the start of each video.
I made a story that contained all four chapter markers. So the "play all" button worked just fine.
I also made buttons for each individual video. I targeted each button for its respective video. But when you select Video 1, it still plays all four videos. When you select Video 2, it plays 2, 3 and 4. And so on.
How do I tell it to play a single chapter, and not all the videos on the track?

Set the "End Jump" for each chapter story to return you to the Main Menu.
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Printing chapter markers for DVD case?

Hey guys,
Unless I just can't find it, is there a way to list all the chapter breaks in a track and print them in a format that would fit nicely in a snapper case or jewel case? Wouldn't this be a great addition to this application?
I transfer people's videos to DVD for a living and need a utility that does this quickly - would anyone know of something for the Mac that can read the chapter breaks from a DVDSP track or can I export a chapter break list maybe??
Thanks all,
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Wouldn't this be a great addition to this application?
Totally!
A year back I looked at how the chapter markers and times could be extracted from a FCP XML file using PHP. An app was developed (not by me, I hasten to add) which did just that, but not with PHP:
http://www.spherico.de/filmtools/XML2Text/index.html
This will give you a list of chapters to feed into DVDSP... which ought then to be the same as any list coming out! (Provided you used FCP in the first place, of course).
I don't think it works with DVDSP description files, but you could easily contact Andreas Kiel (the author) and see if that can be added in to future versions.
I've not used the later version of the software, but the alpha and beta stuff looked excellent. There is now a small charge for the product - 45, I believe.

Chapter markers for dvd

I understand that chapter markers and a chapter menu are not available yet within FCPX. Are there simple but reliable work-arounds for creating a complete burning file from FCPX or via another app.? The intended programme is a multi-cam shoot over three evenings of a amateur pantomime/musical performance. it will run to a finished total length of about 150 minutes involving ten scenes, which is why a proper working chapter menu would be useful.

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http://www.diy-filmmaking.com/create-idvd-chapter-markers-with-metadata-hootenan ny-for-free/
http://www.applesolutions.com/bantha/MH.html
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Best way for play all function

i am making a dvd with 30+ three minute clips. they will be split up into different catagories. so each menu will have about 4-5 clips with seperate play buttons, and their end jump target will be the corresponding menu. i want to make a play all button without laying all clips on another track and setting that target. do i have use a script to do this, or is there another way to go about it.
thanks in advance

There are two basic approaches to creating a play all situation - the first uses stories and the second uses scripts. If you use stories then there are two approaches to that - first off, you can make a story for each individual clip so that you can play just that one clip and then go back to the menu. If you do this then the play all will be a button that points to the actual track. The markers in the track must not have jumps - the story containers will need an end jump and menu call setting though.
The second method using stories is to place end jumps on the individual markers to go back to the right menu. You can then add a single story and place ALL markers in that. This single story becomes your 'play all'. If you do put end jumps on the markers then you limit the possibilities for navigation, unless you then set the end jump to go to a script to evaluate where to go on from there.
In both cases all of the clips are in a single track. You can mix and match chapters in stories as you wish, placing groups of markers together in a story so that only that group plays through... think of a story as a play list and you will get the idea - add the markers that you want to play through, and away you go.
If you want to set this up with scripts then there are several possibilities. However, unless you have all of the clips as separate tracks then there really is no need to script it at all - stories should give you all that you need. You might use a script or two to get the navigation better, but with careful planning you won't even need this.

Best method for PLAY ALL

I've used a couple methods for a PLAY ALL and wonder if anyone has comments on which is preferable. This will be for a glass-mastered SD DVD - an extra feature with an audio disc - and with 5.1 Dolby audio on the DVD.
On this one we're using multiple tracks and scripting to play each track successively as part of a PLAY ALL, or each track separately from a chapter menu.
Previously we've used one main track, and then played chapters via stories.

Depends on the project. But stories will usually play a bit quicker (less pause) since they are all on the same track (if they are on different tracks the playback gets kicked to a different part of the DVD which slows things down), and scripts sometimes are a little less reliable than stories. Found that more on older players, but once in awhile DVD SP scripting can behave strangely. I think most of the "gotchas" can be worked around.
Some others around here prefer scripts more than stories and do not like setting up tracks to have stories. I am not sure there is a perfect answer because each probably have the pluses and minuses, but I usually go with stories when I can, even though I find scripting alot more fun

Inserting Chapter Markers for iDVD

I have a few simple questions about inserting Chapter Markers in FCE, and what exactly is happening. I've looked for the answers in two books, and the Help files, but still have my questions:
In the "Edit Markers" box, the first field is "Name." Is this the name of the Chapter Marker that gets exported?
The next field is "Comment." Is this for my info only? Or does this have something to do with the Chapter Marker getting exported correctly?
If I press the "Add Chapter Marker" button, it adds <CHAPTER> into the Comment field. Is this necessary for the marker to be a Chapter Marker?
Why is there a space in front of " <CHAPTER>"? Is this necessary?
If I add a comment to the Comment field, should it go before or after <Chapter>, or does it matter?
I rarely have used Chapter Markers, and these should be easy questions for someone. Thanks for your help.
Terrell

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When using iDVD and you create chapter markers, dropping your QT export into iDVD, using one of the provided themes, will create a main screen with Play Movie and (something like)Chapter Menus. The Menu page(s) follow your chapters, including any Name you assign: So, If you backspace "Name" and type Scene One, that will appear in your chapter page
Far as I know, Comments is for your eyes only. I've never really used it but I don't see anywhere in iDVD where it shows up; not 100 per cent sure
<CHAPTER> is where you assign a number. Do not delete <CHAPTER> it will not show up in your menu. But if you type Chapter One, that shows up with the Chapter Name
Most iDVD themes automatically create a first chapter for you, called Begin. You can change that inside iDVD
You do not have to assign your chapter a name. That is your call
Other things to note: Create chapter markers in the Timeline. Export as Quicktime Movie, not any version of Quicktime Conversion. In the Export menu, select Chapter Markers.

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I have a client who wants audio only exported from a 2 hour plus original musical video performance and put on CD. I would like to separate the songs on the audio clip so that they can be individually searched by the CD remote rather than just having one long 2 hour plus soundtrack...a lot of work, believe me due to the number of songs involved!
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