Chapter markers help

I am thinking of buying Final Cut Express but I want to make sure it will do what I need it for. In iDVD when you create chapter markers, it will only allow you to insert them by set time increments (every 3 minutes). I need to be able to insert custom chapter markers. Can I do this in FCE? Is it easy to import finished projects into i DVD to burn afterwards? I would appreciate some advice. Thanks!

You can make chapter markers every 15 frames, half a second. It's pretty easy to go from FCE to iDVD.

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HELP: Setting Chapter Markers in DVDSP - exactly to where the playhead is?

Hi
Can the chapter markers in DVDSP be moved frame by frame? When I try and do this, to keep it exactly where the playhead is it won't let me. I have the Chapter marker window up and put in the exact timecode of say 00:01:34:12, but it will just jump from say 00:01:34:08 to 00:01:34:20 . I just need it to be pretty exact for this one maker due to the music. Any suggestions as to how this can be done in DVDSP? If at all?
I'm trying to get this project out, (i've had major troubles with the dissolve quality exporting from Compressor) and if I can do this all will be ok to get it to my client! Stressing a little as I've been trying to complete this for the last 4 days!
Thanks. Margie

Can the chapter markers in DVDSP be moved frame by frame?
Sorry, that's no possible from inside DVDSP. You can do that in FCP and/or Compressor before encoding your movie. Read the next info that was taken from DVDSP User MAnual:
Placing Chapter Markers Exactly Where You Want Them
Adding markers in Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, iMovie, or Compressor offers the
potentially large advantage of allowing you to position them on the exact frame where
you want them to appear.
When adding markers to a track in DVD Studio Pro, you can only place them at GOP
boundaries. This means that you will often not be able to place them exactly where
you want them. When you place the markers with a video editor, the embedded MPEG
encoder automatically forces an I-frame at that position, placing a GOP boundary
exactly at every marker and providing perfect marker placement. Markers placed in
Compressor before using it to encode the video are also perfectly placed.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Exporting Chapter Markers from FCP cuts movie. Help.

Exporting a 90 min movie with chapter markers to a quicktime file for DVDSP.
When I play it back, it starts half way through on a random chapter.
Why is this happening?
I've tried exporting from the browser and the timeline.
Help?
F
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Is there an in point set on the timeline?
Does it only happen when you export with markers?
How are you exporting? Reference movie? Self-contained? Conversion?
Where are you playing it back?

Need Help! How to add Chapter Markers to Mix for CD?

Help would be appreciated! So I created several mixes and I'm wondering how I can export them on one track to a CD with markers in it too skip through the song? So far all I can think of is adding chapter markers in podcast, but idk if that would export to a CD. Help Please!!!

I take it you want to export to a CD - CDs don't have chapter markers, just separate tracks, and that's what happens if you burn a CD straight from GB.
If you want an audio file with chapter markers, make sure you export your podcast as an AAC file. That will create an "enhanced" podcast with chapter markers, but if you burn that onto a CD, it won't play in an ordinary CD player.

Using FCE 4 to edit mov file, inserted 8 chapter markers by double tap M, enter title, click add chapter marker. Rendered and half of the chapter markers unrecognized or not functional. Delete FCE prefs and redo project did not help. How to fix?

Using FCE 4 to edit mov file. Added 8 chapter markers by double tap M, enter title, click add chapter marker. Rendered and 4 of the chapter markers are skipped or not functioning. Deleting FCE prefs and rebuild project did not solve. Solution anyone?

Thanks for taking a look, I am pretty new on a Mac, is this the data you need?

How do I export from Compressor 4 to iDVD with chapter markers?

I get that Final Cut Pro X does not create chapter markers.
I send it to Compressor 4 to do this.
Ok, so far, so good.
How do I export this so that I can then author the DVD to include a menu page, etc?
Do I do this in iDVD? If so, what format, as I see that iDVD does not import MPEG-2.

Don't use the DVD preset in Compressor. Use an MPEG4 format or maybe even AppleTV preset.
This Apple Support Article might help a little.

Chapter Markers won't show up on Chapter Menu when trying to burn a DVD.

Help,
Trying to burn an SD DVD disc in FCP X from the Share menu. I've set Orange Chapter Markers with Titles in my project from the timeline and these don't appear when I check the box to use chapter markers for Subtitles in the Destinations box to burn a DVD. I've set a photo in the main menu and it appears with the Title of my Project, but in the Chapter Menu it only shows the default list of Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc. Shouldn't my Chapters show up on the list after they've been set up on my timeline in the project? Also, I tried burning a disc with my Chapters not showing up on the chapter list and my disc only plays from the Main menu where the picture is inserted. There's a slash line in the Chapter list button stating I can't use that option and I can't play chapters. Trying to get this project out the door before January 20, 2013. Can someone please help?
Thanks,
Dave

Can you post some screen shots? The chapter marker dialog box in the timeline. The DVD menu.
What's playing back the DVD?
Have you tried it without the background image? Build a disk image rather than burn a disc.

How do I get chapter markers defined in a compound clip to show up in the DVD menu?

I have created a timeline to burn a DVD/Blu-Ray. The timeline contains 3 compound clips. Each compound clip contains roughly 25 chapter markers.
When I open the Share > DVD dialog, it shows the Chapter button in the preview, but the DVD itself doesn't have the chapter markers.
Expected Result: When I define Chapter markers in a compound clip, they should show up on a DVD burned from a timeline that used the compound clip.
Actual Result: The DVD does not contain the chapters button, nor do the chapter skip buttons do anything. It's as if the chapters were never defined.
Workaround: Redefine all the chapter markers in the new timeline over the compound clips - Annoying!
Is there a simple way to get FCPX to recognize the chapter markers defined in the compound clip when I burn the project? It would save me quite a bit of time!!
Thanks, all, for your help!

Thanks for the tip. I was looking for this feature, but it was not included in the context menu. It can be found in the "Clip" menu.
I think the best workflow for me would be this:
Edit in a master timeline
Select the entire master time line, send to compound clip.
Create a new project, add the compount clip
Add the chapter markers to the new project
Select everything in the new project, create a second compound clip.This makes the chapter markers portable.
Open up the "burn" project, insert the second compount clip.
Select the newly inserted compound clip, and select "Break Apart Clip" from the "Clip" menuThe result is a managable compound clip with chapter markers.
Thanks for taking the time to answer my question!
db

For what reasons would you not be able to add chapter markers to a project?

New to this...I will try to give you the detail you need to answer without giving you a long story. I am actually asking this question because I have a video production company working on my wedding video..they are using iDVD to burn but I am not sure if they are using iMovie to compose or some other software. Anyways, this is actually the second time around with my video. They produced it 18 months ago and it looked beautiful! The only problem was that we realized 10 months later that there was an audio problem with the wedding ceremony. In the meantime, the person who originally worked on the project left with the software and the equipment. So, they had to start over and have been working on the redo since February and I think I am the iDVD "test rat". They are telling me now that it is not possible to add chapter markers to the project in iDVD. And this is part of the e-mail they sent me with a supposed explanation:
+I took your corrected DVD to the Apple Store and the training expert explained to me that this program only shows each chapter at a time and the program will automatically go back to the menu after each chapter+.
From what I have been reading on the discussion boards, the only reason that adding chapter markers would not be possible is that they are using iDVD '08 (since they purchased the software in February, I don't think this is possible) or that they did not use the original wedding tape to create the new DVD project..they used the already broken down video segments from the 1st DVD and just put them in menu folders??? Any help or explanation would be GREATLY appreciated! If there is any additional information you might need, I will do my best to provide it.
THANKS!!!

Hi cooperjb,
Welcome to apple discussions. iDvd is consumer authoring software. DVDSP on the other hand is part of FCS 2 / apple's top of the line / professional DVD authoring software. There are some significant (huge) differences between the two apps which I won't go into great details here since I could likely fill a text book on this very subject. Instead you can search this forum/s for a few prior posts as well as apple's knowledge base (KB) for further details on exactly why pros prefer to use Apple's FCS 2 as opposed to the i-Apps.
As much as one may want iDvd to act and perform exactly like Professional Software, It is not. It's intended for consumers (and prosumers).
On a less serious note, this one's always good for a laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0&feature=fvw#watch-main-area
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Chapter Markers End Jump Too Early-Problem

Folks, I am using DVDSP 4 and my chapter markers keep stopping too early from the burned DVD. When I play the Video_TS folder using Apple DVD player all is well. When I burn it and play it on a standard DVD player, all the chapter markers end jump earlier than they should - cutting off my full credit rolls on my video track.
All of my chapter markers came from Final Cut Pro where I initially made them.
Please advise.

Make sure you test this on more than one player if it is a "for real" project of replication or duplication. All players are not created equal and there are the real weird things that may show up on only one or two players, but you need to make sure. You may want to try the other methods and see if it helps on the problem player just for fun. (Yeah, I know does not sound like much fun, but it is sort of interesting I guess )

Chapter Markers won't appear on Marker list in FCP X settings when trying to Burn a Standard Definition Disc

Help,
Trying to burn an SD DVD disc in FCP X from the Share menu. I've set Orange Chapter Markers with Titles in my project from the timeline and these don't appear when I check the box to use chapter markers for Subtitles in the Destinations box to burn a DVD. I've set a photo in the main menu and it appears with the Title of my Project, but in the Chapter Menu it only shows the default list of Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc. Shouldn't my Chapters show up on the list after I set them up on my timeline in the project? Also, I did burn a disc with my Chapters not showing up the chapter list and my disc only plays from the Main menu with the picture inserted. There's a slash line in the Chapter list button stating I can't use that option and I can't play chapters. Trying to get this project out the door before January 20, 2013. Can someone please help?
Thanks,
Dave

This "Share" feature behaves the same in both FCP7 and FCPX (it may actually be the only thing they have in common).
Since the specification for DVD-Video does not support titled chapter points, the text that you have entered for the marker does not appear on the burned DVD. You only get DVD chapter points at the same time index as the time code position of the FCP marker (and even then, it's at the closest i-frame of the MPEG2 GOP structure). Also, the first frame is always "Chapter 1". So, if your first FCP7/X marker at two minutes is named "Later that day...", then on the burned DVD it will appear as "Chapter 2".
Checking "use chapter markers for Subtitles" was a good guess; however, this feature turns extended markers into subtitles (a very, very quick way to create subtitles, but limited when compared to what can be done in DVD Studio Pro).
Could a QuickTime movie burned to a DVD-R/+R work instead of a DVD? QuickTime chapter markers support text.
-Warren

Fix for erroneous chapter markers in Encore CS4

Thought I post my work for all to use. In the mean time, I also hope Adobe picks up this problem and posts a fix for it
If you use Encore chapter markers in Premiere, when you import the media in Encore, your chapter markers are nicely named "ThisIsAChapterMarkerFlag" (at least that is what happens with me and a few others: see other posts in this forum).
I was not so happy with the fix suggested in that post to manually correct the chapter markers in Encore, so I dug a little more.
I have tracked the error down to an error in the creation of the <media.m2v>.xmpses. After having verified that changing that file fixed the error, I decided to write a little program that does this for you, brushing up some very stale C knowledge and picking up a free Visual C++ environment from Microsoft.
Reason for automating is that every time you change the timeline in Premiere and re-export, you would have to do manual work in Encore again.
Well, a few days later, I did build the program and IT WORKS.
So this is how it works:
* Following the initial suggestion by bowden, when you create a chapter marker in Premiere, copy the name to the comment section of the chapter marker
* do your export in Premiere
* run the fix program in a dos prompt in the directory where the exports reside
* it will convert all the .xmpses files it finds there by copying the comment section to the name section
* import the media in Encore: voila, there are your chapter markers
If you want to pick up the program:
ftp://ftp.l3m.nu
user: Adobe
password: Xmpses
Oh and no comments please on the style of software writing, it has been more than 20 years since I wrote my last C program :-))
I think this also clearly shows this is a bug in CS4 Premiere (or the media exporter, eitherway). Adobe can you please look into this?
This will definitely work with the integrated work flows supported in CS4 i.e. clikcing on a timeline in Encore, bringing up the timeline for editing in Premiere. But that for know is only a small burden for me.
Hope this helps
Lucien

To All
Well I burnt some time for nothing: it appears that right when I was writing my fix program, Adobe released an update of the Media Encoder that has the problem fixed in the encoder.
So to all: forget my fix, make sure you update to the latest version of AME and you are fine
Lucien

Chapter Markers do not show on iDVD

I edited a movie in FCE, DV 16:9 aspect ratio. added chapter markers, but in order to preserve the 16:9 aspect ratio when I exported the project to Quick Time I encoded it as HD 16:9, It worked preserving the aspect ratio but in the process I lost the chapter markers. When I tried the converted project in iDVD the chapter markers were gone. Anybody out there has a solution for this issue?

You might try importing the QT into iMovie and then sharing to iDVD after making making sure the chapters are marked. But if that doesn't help then you may wish to read these:
http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc3.html
http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/utilizingchapter_markers_set_with_final_cut_pro_inidvd.php
http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/specs.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9693000&#9693000
Hope the above is helpful but if not just come on back.
Good luck!

Chapter Markers missing via Compressor?

Hi y'all, Using the latest FCP Studio, I used the default Compressor setting for DVD best 90 minutes, and my chapter markers did not get exported. Any idea what the problem is, or how to recapture them without re-exporting from FCP? I can't find a way to export the text of the markers. I also read that markers on clips will not export, only from the timeline, but FCP would not let me add Chapter markers to the timeline. It is being ornery.

Jefferis
You can read this tutorial about * Chapters and Compression Markers *.
FCP lets you add chapter markers in timeline; you must be doing something wrong. You can add the markers in Compressor too.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Converting NTSC to PAL with chapter markers

Hey guys,
I have just a quick question.
I am making a home made video. I did all the editing in FCP and made a great DVD in iDVD. I would like to do the same thing in PAL format so I can send it to my parents in Europe. My original footage is in NTSC. I did my own research and tried using compressor to change format to PAL.
I tried several different settings (PAL DV, Mpeg 2 PAL) but the outcome movie is always missing chapter markers.
I also tried to import the PAL movie (after conversion in Compressor) to FCP and added chapter markers but did not work.
Does anybody know how to convert the format from NTSC to PAL and keep the chapter markers at the same time? I would like to mantain as high quality as possible.
Thanks for your help.
iMac G5 Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)
iMac G5 Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Well, this seemed to work. However, being completely new to converting to PAL, I was surprised to see the "jumpiness" that goes along with the frame rate drop. Looking at it taxes the eyes as it seems like its dropping frames every so often. I realize, through more research that this is due to the 25 FPS nature of PAL plus the fact that I'm converting and not just authoring from PAL material. Having said this, is there a tried and true way of "smoothing" this jumpiness that anyone would share?
A friend of mine suggested that when I place the file into DVDSP, I choose the TOP field in the encoding tab, prior to burning the disk. In the past I have always left the FIELD menu set at Auto. He says that setting it to TOP might help a little.
He also told me that a lot of the software based converters don't do the best of jobs. Although acceptable results may come from tweaking the settings, the best way to convert NTSC to PAL (with the most pleasing results) is by using a very high end converter (not a computer). Although you have to weigh out the circumstances such as how many disks will eventually be converted compared to available budget, is it worth spending a little extra for a master that will ultimately see 1,000 copies?
I'm planning on showing my client the burn with field dominance set to TOP, on Monday. Hopefully she'll find it acceptable and I'll be able to move on with this project. Thanks for all the help!
Steve
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