Export as 16:9 w/ chapter markers?

I have a 2 hr. project shot on HDV. loaded ftg. as DV NTSC 16:9 anamorphic. I edited and added several chap makrs in FCP 4.5. now I want to export this w/ chapter mrkrs into iDVD. I need to have 16:9 look w/ chapter mkrs in iDVD. How do I do this?

If Anamorphicizer doesn't help there are other tips here that may:
Anamorphic widescreen in iDVD 5
http://capital2.capital.edu/admin-staff/dalthoff/widescreen.html

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I'm exporting various projects out to AppleTV via Compressor with Chapter Markers. Works great except for the Chapter Markers, which are out of sync...significantly, by 30 seconds or so. Any ideas on what the problem might be or how to ensure Chapter Markers will transfer over to the AppleTV setting in compressor?

Matt Martin1 wrote:
I'm exporting various projects out to AppleTV via Compressor with Chapter Markers. Works great except for the Chapter Markers, which are out of sync...significantly, by 30 seconds or so. Any ideas on what the problem might be or how to ensure Chapter Markers will transfer over to the AppleTV setting in compressor?
So this is a Compressor-specific issue, right?
What I mean to say is, if you're exporting QT movies out of FCP, those do not exhibit the shift in chapter markers, correct? Just trying to determine if FCP/QT is the culprit here.
Or are you exporting directly to Compressor? Or adding the chapter markers directly in Compressor?

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Hello, John,
Welcome to the discussions.
You can either do your 'share to video from iMovie' before or after creating your iDVDs. But, you will need to create a second iMovie if yours is too long for one DVD and you are wanting to make 2 DVDs from the one long movie.
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Then, select 'New' iMovie. When it opens, give it a name like "Part2" and then 'Paste' your selected clips. Save the movie, then go back to the first one. Delete the clips you just copied.
Close iMovie. Open your DVD project. Find the 'Media' tab, go to 'Movies' and drag and drop your first movie into iDVD. Finish the iDVD project. Save and close.
Then, create the second iDVD project for your second movie in the same way.
Do 'save as disk image' for each iDVD project. That way your project is intact for each one, and you will not lose anything when you change the iMovies. You can burn your DVDs from the disk images.
Now, go back to your second iMovie. Select the clips and copy. Close that movie and open the first one. Paste the second set of clips. Now you have your original movie back and can do your share to video from it. Delete the second movie.

Cannot export as says there are chapter markers within 1 sec. of another

I started with a clean slate (I thought) with a new sequence, whereupon I put some chapter markers only to be told (when just about to export) that there were chapter markers within 1 second of other chapter markers and so those chapter markers would be ignored. Why is it saying that when I know very well (at least I think I do) that there are minutes between chapter markers? Could there be something hidden? I have spent hours exporting only to find that most of my chapter markers didn't make it through. Can someone help me with this? Thanks a bunch!

My bet is that you actually do.
Zoom in real close and Option-M (I think) to move to the next Marker... I'll bet you hit the marker button twice really quick somewhere and have two on the timeline.
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Usually in Final Cut Pro I have no problem exporting a finished video with chapter markers. However, when I go to File >> Export >> QuickTime Movie, the fields titled "Include" and "Markers" are different. "Include" says "Auto" instead of "Video & Audio", and "Markers" says "Quarter" instead of "Chapter".
Why would it do this? I simply restarted FCP and it is back to normal. But I dont understand why it would do this.
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Why would it do this? I simply restarted FCP and it is back to normal. But I dont understand why it would do this.
Ghosts in the machine.

Why won't chapter markers export?

I have tried again and again to export my chapter markers but they just won't. What am I doing wrong?
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If you don't have any other markers (e.g. compression), export your movie to "include chapter markers" instead of "all markers."
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If you need the techie explanation, selecting All Markers writes all marker information to a single text track in QuickTime (do a Command-J of your movie in QuickTime to observe this). Compressor & DVDSP cannot parse the chapter information from this single text track.
When selecting DVD Studio Pro Markers, you're writing three kinds of marker info - Chapter, Compression and Cut - across 2 text tracks in QuickTime. DVDSP & Compressor can correctly parse the chapter info (and, because of the presence of compression and cut markers, your encodes should come out better).
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I have a video with 6 sequences. #2-5 are the 5 sections of my video. Sequence #1 contains the other 5 in order, to give me a "full video" sequence.
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(Exporting through Compressor to DVD Studio Pro.)
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Thanks for any help!
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You're correct, the green chapter markers are in each individual sequence. What threw me off though, is that even in the "master" sequence (containing the nested ones), I could right-click on the timeline and all the chapter markers were available to jump to. I don't understand why they don't export.
I did export the sequences separately. In DVDSP, creating a separate track for each one preserves the chapter markers. But if I combine them on a single track as you suggested, only the first clip/sequence has its chapter markers -- none of the others come in with the clips.
So, I now have five separate tracks, and had to recreate all the stories I'd already done, as well as re-link all my menus. What a huge amount of unnecessary work.
The FCP manual talks about nested sequences and suggests using them to combine into one master sequence. It sure doesn't mention that you lose all your chapter markers.
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jac
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put an in point at marker 1 and out point in marker 2 in the FCp sequence, and see how long the duration is... repeat for 2 to 3 etc...
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This has been fixed...
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I have exported my FCP timeline with chapter markers to a self-contained QT file.
I have enabled the text track in the QT file. Now I want to encode the QT file to MPEG-2 with the chapter markers. But I don't see any markers in Compressor? I only see the enabled text track...
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I just ran into this problem today myself. It's unbelievable; I get so tired of Apple programming methods!! Do they even test or use these things before they release them so things make sense to the end user?
*breathe*
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http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/exporting_markers_fromfcp.html
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First see Tom's answer in chapter marker wierdness
About colors: as far as I know markers appear green in the timeline or red in a clip. To add a marker in a clip first select the clip. If no clip is selected the marker is added to the timeline.
A marker in a clip is useful to mark a point of the clip independent of its position in the timeline (eg music beats): if you move the clip the clip markers moves with it. A marker in the timeline does not move with clips, and can be used for marking chapters.
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- position the playhead in the timeline
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When exporting for iDVD: use Export/QuickTime Movie and select "Chapter Markers" in the save dialog.
Piero

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Does anyone have any advice on what I might be doing wrong?
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Or, just try selecting your sequence in FCP's browser, then go to the file menu and export using Compressor. Choose your setting, your destination, and hit submit. Saves steps, and it will export your complete sequence including chapter markers.

Chapter markers for iDVD6

Tom, please help if you're there. I'm using FCE HD and I'm exporting into iDVD6. My chapter markers aren't showing up. In earlier versions I had to select "DVD Pro Studio Markers" to have them show up in iDVD. Now I don't have that option. What can I do to make them be recognized? I vaguely remember reading in your book about keyframe settings in order for the chapter marker to be recognized, etc. Any advice, help would be appreciated!
Victoria

There's a tutorial attached to this thread, the procedure is the same for iDVD6.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=862195&tstart=50
Al

Chapter Markers - where did they go???

I've searched and found a lot of posts, but no solution that works for me.
I've followed this: http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/compression_chapter_markersstone.html and it doesn't help.
I've exported every way possible from FCP, and when I bring the file (or export directly) into Compressor, I can see the markers.
When I encode in Compressor, and bring it into DVD Studio Pro, there are no Chapter Markers anywhere. I had even made sure to check the boxes regarding DVD Studio Pro and Chapter Markers.
What am I missing?
Can anyone tell me if there's a way to export the Chapter Markers from FCP and import it into DVD Studio Pro?
Any help would be appreciated...

Of course I get it working right after I posted this...
Here's the solution so others can benefit:
Exporting the QT movie with "Chapter Markers" instead of anything else. You'd think that a setting specifically for "DVD Studio Pro" would work, but it doesn't. "All Markers" won't work either. Since the word "all" doesn't mean "all," it's all very confusing.
Once in Compressor, you want to see your markers show up purple instead of green. Importing the compressed file immediately imported the chapter markers.
Recap:
1. In FCP, create markers, open them and designate them as Chapter Markers.
2. Export to Compressor or QT movie, self contained not necessary, using ONLY the "Chapter Markers" setting.
3. Encode in Compressor, and bring into DVD Studio Pro.
More details are in the other posts and links, and here's another good one:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/exporting_markers_fromfcp.html
Silal - yes, I tried selecting the clip and using "import embedded markers," but I apparently would needed a text file with that data already prepared in order to do that. I tried searching for a way to export only a chapter marker list, but I haven't found a way to do that. It would have saved me from re-encoding everything twice if I had found a way. (I would have made one manually if I didn't have almost 90 Chapters!) ...and I knew the markers needed to be in the timeline and not in the clips, but thanks for checking.
My 2 Cents:
I don't see any reason why this can't be greatly simplified. With the numbers of other users having the same confusion as I did, Apple should address this. Imagine this: You simply create a marker in FCP, and export with an option that automatically designates them all as chapter markers, and then it just works the first time. Having an option to export a chapter marker text file for importing over previously encoded files would be nice, too.

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This Apple Support Article might help a little.

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