Exporting Chapter Markers from FCPX

In FCP7 I can export my master file with it's chapter markers to a new movie file ready for DVDStudioPro.
How do you export chapter markers from FCPX?
Also, FCP7 allows you to export without making a self contained movie file that DVDStudioPro can use to burn the DVD.
Is it possible to export from FCPX without making a self contained movie file?
If so, how?
Thank you for your help.

If you're going to DVD Studio Pro, it will need to transcode to mpeg-2 at some point. If you exported a referenced QT movie from FCP7 previously, then DVD Studio Pro was doing the transcoding for you.
In FCPX, I suggest exporting using Compressor 4. Apply the DVD preset (mpeg2 video and dolby digital audio) and you can also apply chapter markers within Compressor.
Import the 2 resulting files into DVD Studio Pro and no further transcoding (other than menus) will need to be performed when you burn the disc.
~D

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After upgrading to Final Cut Pro X 10.0.8, I am having problems exporting chapter markers. Specially, at the end of the export, this error message appears and cancels the entire export:
Error Message: "The operation could not be completed because the chapter marker track could not be written (error -12769)."
As you can see, none of my markers are closer together than one to two minutes, and the error message appears whether I have a marker at the very beginning of the project, or occurring a few frames in.
The only report of this problem on Apple's support forums was caused by trying to read FCP X 10.0.5 markers in 10.0.6. In this case, all my markers were created in 10.0.8.
This error persists even after trashing FCP X preferences and moving marker positions.
The file will export perfectly when chapter markers are not included in the export.
At this point, I don't have a good workaround.
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Larry

Hi I have this same problem right now!
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OS 10.8.5
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No recent upgrades, nothing has changed.
It had been working fine since I bought the Mac Mini + software in 2013…)
I have already tried removing the markers, deleting all markers and making new ones, creating a new project and pasting the old sequence into it (without markers), creating new markers in the new project, etc...
I still cannot create a master file (unless I deselect 'use chapter markers'), or unless I select a range of the project which does not include markers!
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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?

Exporting chapter markers from FCP

I'm trying to export markers from my FCP (Final Cut Studio 2) timeline which I can then use as chapter points in DSP. I have exported the timeline with DSP markers but when I import the .mov into DSP no markers are apparent. Any suggestions.
Thanks in advance. x

Hello!
There is a few options here.
Personally I would suggest you send your timeline to compressor to encode to mpeg2 for DVDSP.
If you have placed those markers and made sure they are a <CHAPTER> in the comments section in your marker window, you can click add chapter marker in that window too, then the mpeg 2 will include those in DVDSP project when you import them.
(the marker window to make sure its a <Chapter> hit the M key when your play head is on the same frame as the marker.)
Bringing a quicktime into DVDSP has to encode the QT anyway... might as well do it right in compressor.
if thats not an option you can....
There is a way to import a "Marker List" but I dont remember how I did it. I just tried making a text edit document which I thought I did but that didnt work.
I will do some research and post back but I would suggest you encode your Project with chapter markers.
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With the latest updates to FCPX, I am now considering giving it a try. There is one more function that is critical for my work, and I can't find and answer for it. If I make chapter markers on the timeline in FCPX, then use Compressor 4 to compress it to .m2v files for DVD, do the chapter markers carry through, like they do with FCP7 and Compressor 3.5?

Currently, markers don't get transfered from FCPX to Compressor. Hopefully that will get fixed in a future update.
While we're waiting for that to happen, you can use this app to convert markers from a FCPX xml file to a .txt file that you can import into compressor. It's not the easiest solution, but it works.
https://github.com/rockwood/fcpx-Marker-Converter

Exporting Chapter Markers From FCP7 to Compressor for DVD Studio Pro

I put several chapter markers in a Final Cut Pro 7 sequence by hitting the "M" key a few times on the timeline.
I tried exporting the video with Compressor, both by using "Share" and "Send To Compressor."
When I load the post-Compressor video files into DVD Studio Pro, make a track, and look at the track timeline, the chapter markers are not there.
How do I send the video files from FCP7 to Compressor to DVDSP and have the chapter markers survive the journey?
(NOTE: I am not using Final Cut Pro X, where, I understand, that the problems with chapter markers are a whole different ballgame.)

When you hit m twice and get the marker window:
1. Make sure the marker is created on the timeline, not the clip;
2. you have to specify that it's a chapter marker. There's a pulldown or something to select it. It's NOT automatic.

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Is it possible to export chapter markers from a premiere pro sequence so that they are embedded within quicktime h264 file like it is with compressor?

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CS4 exporting chapter markers to Encore?

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It seems that life is not so simple in CS4.
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I did find and check the box for each individual marker to indicate that I wanted it to be treated as an Encore marker. But when I export the sequence to an AVI file and then import that AVI file into Encore, there are no chapter markers.
I read the help message, which recommended File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Send to Encore, but when I tried that option I found it to be a real pain in the neck. It wanted to create a brand-new Encore project, and I couldn't find a way to tell ilt to use my existing Encore project. Also, I will want to use the same sequence in more than one Encore project, so I really don't want to tie it to an individual project - I want to just export it as an AVI that contains the metadata to be usable in a variety of Encore projects that I may want to use it in.
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En chapter markers can only be exported from CS4 if:
You send the sequence to En via Dynamic Link. The markers don't have to have a name in this case.
You name the chapter markers and export from Pr as MPEG2 DVD. In this case the chapter markers have to have a name, and you have to check "Include Source XMP Metadata" in the flyout menu of the Export Settings dialog. (The chapter marker information is included in the sidecar XMP file)
Gone is the ability to export chapter markers with AVI files.
Although you can't specify what En project you want from Pr when sending a sequence to En via Dynamic Link, you can open any En project and import one or more Pr sequences via Encore's File | Adobe Dynamic Link command.
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Removing unwanted chapter markers from m2v files

I inadvertantly left some unwanted chapter markers in FC sequences which I then exported as m2v files. Is there any way to remove the chapter markers from the m2v files so I don't have to re-render to m2v? I have lots of files!

The original files were edited in FCP, then edited in Motion to add graphic overlays. From there, they were rendered as m2v using Compressor.
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ive used iDVD for a while and know the preference for the chapter markers from FCP 7 to iDVD. finally using Studio pro trying to firgure out about automatic chapter markers. I edited it in FCP X and exported it to make the chapters in FCP 7
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or the mpeg 2 6.2mbps 2 pass """"""
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how should i fix this annoying issue

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Russ

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http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/DVDStudio_Pro_4.1_lbnz.pdf#search=%22h.264%20chapter%20markers%22

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Exporting "Selected Clips" and iDVD Chapter Markers from iMovie

I've tried exporting "selected clips" from iMovie . The iDVD Chapter Markers do not appear as a menu option on the initial iDVD menu screen when "selected clips" is checked in the iMovie Share option. The chapter markers are limited to the clips I'm exporting. The "Share" dialog box seems to indicate that Chapter Markers should export but they don't. // I'm trying to break up a movie that's too long for a DVD (but I will later share to video from iMovie). I'd prefer not to make two iMovie projects out of this. Thanks!
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To make the second one before sharing the entire movie:
Select the clips you want in the second movie, then go to 'Edit' and 'Copy'.
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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.
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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.

Exporting omf file from FCPX

Any one know how to export omf with FCPX? have tried "automatic duck" but version 4.10 won't work with FCPX.
help.

If you're going to DVD Studio Pro, it will need to transcode to mpeg-2 at some point. If you exported a referenced QT movie from FCP7 previously, then DVD Studio Pro was doing the transcoding for you.
In FCPX, I suggest exporting using Compressor 4. Apply the DVD preset (mpeg2 video and dolby digital audio) and you can also apply chapter markers within Compressor.
Import the 2 resulting files into DVD Studio Pro and no further transcoding (other than menus) will need to be performed when you burn the disc.
~D

Problem exporting chapter markers

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