No chapter Markers showing up in DVDSP

Funny thing, I see my chapter markers in compressor in the PREVIEW WINDOW but, they dont show up on my timeline in DVDSP.
Never had this issue before.

Not sure why, but there back after turning off the compression markers.

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Chapter markers not appearing in DVDSP

I have a movie in FCP (NTSC, 4:3 SP) with several chapter markers. I exported the movie from FCP as Quicktime with "All Markers" selected. I viewed the file with QT, and the markers showed up. I compressed the movie using compressor. I imported the compressed movie into DVDSP, and the markers didn't show up.
I looked at the various related messages here, and the suggestion to use the uncompressed file to establish the markers sounded good. I imported the uncompressed file, oops, no chapter markers.
I checked my software revisions, and updated Quicktime to 7.1.1. per the Apple site. I re-created the Quicktime file using FCP and imported it, uncompressed, again into DVDSP -- no markers.
I exited everything. I started FCP, created a brand-new project, imported a small clip, set 3 markers, 1 chapter, 1 chapter+compression, 1 chaptercompressionscore. I exported the file as QT with "all Markers" selected. I viewed the file with QT, and the markers are there. I put this QT file into a new project in DVDSP -- no markers showed up at all.
We can ignore Compressor for the time being, as DVDSP doesn't see the markers even if Compressor is not used. The culprit seems to be DVDSP. Is there some DVDSP setting that needs to be set to get it to recognize markers? I've had it work ok in the past, I don't know what's changed.
thanks for any help!!!
G4 dual 1GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6) FC Studio 5.1, latest updates for everything.

I looked at the various related messages here, and the suggestion to use the uncompressed file to establish the markers sounded good.
I don't know why people post that advice. It's flat out wrong. Sorry you got bad directions.
Anyways, If you're exporting out to DVD and your QuickTime Movie will be compressed via Compressor or DVDSP's internal encoder, do not export using All Markers because that embeds the marker data in a way that DVDSP and Compressor cannot properly parse. If you're going to send to Compressor or DVDSP's internal encoder, select DVD Studio Pro Markers during export from FCP.
Selecting DVDSP Markers exports Chapter, Compression and Cut markers. Cut markers are created by FCP whenever you make a cut in the timeline. With cut markers present, every time your start a new clip - or you simply use the Add Edit command (Control-V) - it's the same as adding a compression marker, in that it greatly improve encoding forcing an I-frame in the GOP.
And, for what it's worth, there is no need to flag a marker as both a chapter and a compression marker - chapter markers are automatically compression markers. They force an I-frame in the GOP structure, just like a compression marker

Import Chapter Markers con FCP to DVDSP

I have a movie with 13 Chapter Markers in FCP 5.0.4
I have imported this to DVDSP 4.0.3 but there are no chapter markers.
I have exported the mvoie as DV PAL using Quicktime.
Quicktime sees all the chapter markers. I can jump to each chapter.
In DVDSP I made a new track and drag-drop the exported DV file to this track.
So far that's fine. I can preview the track. However, there is only one chapter marker at the beginning of the track.
where have all the other markers gone?
I am a complete newbe to DVDSP.
Thanks for your advise.

Hi Yoochul !
Thanks, right, I was looking for the 'add chapter marker' in the cmd-alt-M pop-up menu.
btw: I import file from FCP using 'export quicktime movie' and let DVDSP do the encoding. This is because Compressor corrupts my file system unavoidably.
Is there a quality difference if I encode using compressor or DVDSP? I guess I read some months ago that DVDSP is better than compressor anyway?
many thanks
Markus
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DVDSP Chapter Markers and Segmenting

For some reason our DVDSP chapter markers in FCP don't end up in the final mpeg video when we allow segmenting to the cluster. Disable "Allow Segmenting", and all chapter markers show up in DVDSP. Any reason why this happens or how to fix it?

Just to follow up, we installed 2.1 (FCP Studio 5.1) on all machines and now it works.

Compressor H.264 not exporting Chapter Markers

I am still struggling to see chapter markers show up in DVD Studio Pro using compressor & H.264. Compressor outputs the Chapters markers when using MPEG2. My understanding is that this should be automatic.
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BKENT:
The following information appears in DVDSP 4.1 Late Breaking News file:
Exporting H.264 Clips With Markers From Final Cut Pro
Compressor does not export chapter markers when using its H.264 for HD DVD presets. You can either create a chapter marker text file that you can import or manually add the chapter markers in DVD Studio Pro directly..
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/DVDStudio_Pro_4.1_lbnz.pdf#search=%22h.264%20chapter%20markers%22

Unable to import Chapter Markers

Hello - I am trying to import Chapter Markers from FCP to DVDSP. I double-clicked 'm' in the timeline (not in the clips), clicked on Add Chapter Marker; labeled them, then File/Export/ Quicktime Movie, and where it says Markers, chose DVD Studio Pro Markers. I also tried Chapter Markers, just to see if that would work, but neither of them seem to work - I don't see any of my markers in DVD SP. I have done this several times before, and never had a problem, so, not sure what step I might be missing...ok, thanks.

try leaving the <comment> in the box and then typing after that
i.e. <comment> chapter 1, <comment> chapter, 2 etc.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10857195&#10857195 is where I got this idea because I was having the same problem as all of you.

Quicktime Chapter Markers

I have a quicktime movie that I added chapter markers to in quicktime pro and then imported it into DVD SP and the chapter markers are not available. Is there a way for them to work in DVD SP? (The quicktime movie somehow exported without markers and to redo it from FCP takes hours and hours, just I'm trying quicktime if it works). Does anyone know? Thansk so much.

First off, do the chapter markers work in QT Pro? This might seem like a dumb question, but you're getting the chapter marker drop-down, right?
If that is the case, and you're still not getting chapter markers placed in your DVDSP Track after you've dropped-in your QuickTime movie, try Control-Clicking (right-clicking) on your movie in the DVDSP timeline and selecting Add Embedded Markers.
Or are you asking this question because the above workflow hasn't worked for you already?

Ipad not recognizing chapter markers

Hi,
I can make a timeline in FCPro 7 - and I name the chapter markers with a number that corresponds with, in this case, a horse hip number at a horse sale!
So I'll have a 30 minute movie edited in FCPro 7 with 10 chapter markers - all named with a number.
When I export to a SC movie - all chapter markers show up perfectly. I then run the SC movie thru Compressor - and compress for iPad. NOW, my problem begins.
When I drop the compression in iTunes and sync with my iPad (Model MB293LL) - it syncs perfectly with the iPad - and I see the Chapter Markers - but the "names" of them are lost! They're just renamed 1, 2, 3, etc and I've completely lost the number I've used to rename them???
So I "see" all the chapter markers - but their 'name' has been lost?
Interestingly, if I bring in the same movie to my iPhone - the Chapter markers show up perfectly! And hold my "name" perfectly. Is this an iPad bug?
But I could've sworn that a year or so ago, this did all work. Anyone else have this issue - that the chater marer names are lost in iPad?
Thanks,
Larry

So from that I'd say it doesn't seem to be a quirk of Compressor's or FCP's reading of the markers.
Maybe an iOS or iPad-specific thing. Unfortunately, not owning an iPad, I can't try and replicate the problem.
You might want to try a short test where you create and name the markers in Compressor and see whether the names are retained.
Perhaps the iPad discussion forum could turn up someone who has had that experience…and a solution.
Good luck.
Russ

IPad is loosing Chapter Markers?

Hi,
I can make a timeline in FCPro 7 - and I name the chapter markers with a number that corresponds with, in this case, a horse hip number at a horse sale!
So I'll have a 30 minute movie edited in FCPro 7 with 10 chapter markers - all named with a number.
When I export to a SC movie - all chapter markers show up perfectly. I then run the SC movie thru Compressor - and compress for iPad. NOW, my problem begins.
When I drop the compression in iTunes and sync with my iPad (Model MB293LL) - it syncs perfectly with the iPad - and I see the Chapter Markers - but the "names" of them are lost! They're just renamed 1, 2, 3, etc and I've completely lost the number I've used to rename them???
So I "see" all the chapter markers - but their 'name' has been lost?
Interestingly, if I bring in the same movie to my iPhone - the Chapter markers show up perfectly! And hold my "name" perfectly. Is this an iPad bug?
But I could've sworn that a year or so ago, this did all work. Anyone else have this issue - that the chater marer names are lost in iPad?
Thanks,
Larry

So from that I'd say it doesn't seem to be a quirk of Compressor's or FCP's reading of the markers.
Maybe an iOS or iPad-specific thing. Unfortunately, not owning an iPad, I can't try and replicate the problem.
You might want to try a short test where you create and name the markers in Compressor and see whether the names are retained.
Perhaps the iPad discussion forum could turn up someone who has had that experience…and a solution.
Good luck.
Russ

Chapter Markers lost in iPad transfer?

Hi,
I can make a timeline in FCPro 7 - and I name the chapter markers with a number that corresponds with, in this case, a horse hip number at a horse sale!
So I'll have a 30 minute movie edited in FCPro 7 with 10 chapter markers - all named with a number.
When I export to a SC movie - all chapter markers show up perfectly. I then run the SC movie thru Compressor - and compress for iPad. NOW, my problem begins.
When I drop the compression in iTunes and sync with my iPad (Model MB293LL) - it syncs perfectly with the iPad - and I see the Chapter Markers - but the "names" of them are lost! They're just renamed 1, 2, 3, etc and I've completely lost the number I've used to rename them???
So I "see" all the chapter markers - but their 'name' has been lost?
Interestingly, if I bring in the same movie to my iPhone - the Chapter markers show up perfectly! And hold my "name" perfectly. Is this an iPad bug?
But I could've sworn that a year or so ago, this did all work. Anyone else have this issue - that the chater marer names are lost in iPad?
Thanks,
Larry

I must be losing it. I meant to post in this thread.
My chapters are clean. Pretty good at avoiding anything problematic. I even keep spaces out of my folder names because when I learned to use computers they weren't allowed. (only 128 characters too, if I remember correctly)
I have the previous versions of Final Cut Studio. The recent decline of DVD and the economy has eaten my departments budget to upgrade the OS to Leopard and to Studio 2 so FCP 5.1.4, etc.
Maybe this has been fixed in the upgrade?
My editor has upgraded. So, this would be entirely a moot issue if Apple saw fit to make their projects backwards compatible. (Don't get me started on that) I guess I will have to stay on top of my contract editors and sending me an XML so I can work in their projects. Or giving me the M2V's I ask for already rendered.
Until we can upgrade around here.
thanks for the help tho.

No Chapter Markers

I exported my Sequence to Compressor.
I then imported DVD SP and I dragged the file to into the template and chose Create Button and Chapter Index.
But only two of my chapter markers show up in my DVD SP Timeline.
I checked my FCP Timeline and all my markers are purple, indicating that they are correct.
I originally made a mistake and ran the Sequence through Compressor when most of my markers were not specified as "Chapter Makers." I deleted those markers and replaced them in the same location with Chapter Markers. Now that I made the correction, only the original Chapter Markers show up in DVD SP.
What could be the issue?

Please do not double post.
See the response in your other thread linked below.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11304781#11304781
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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

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

Video chapter markers not showing in iTunes

I used Metadata Hootenanny to add chapter markers in a movie.
When I play the movie through Quicktime it shows the pop-up chapter selector, but when i import the movie into iTunes and play it through iTunes, the controls don't show the chapter markers.
I've seen the chapter markers working fine in iTunes for movies purchased in the iTunes Store.
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No chapter Markers showing up in DVDSP

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