Chapter markers display in Compressor preview window but not in compressed Quicktime
by Tom Donnelly
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Oct 1, 2008 at 6:22:25 pm
Hi all:
Sorry, some Final Cut references here to put my compression prob in context...
I am exporting a self-contained movie using setting "Show DVD Studio Pro Markers" - the sequence and of course the exported file are ProRes codec.
When I open the QT outside of FCP, all the chapter markers are there in Quicktime viewer window (lower right, popup that allows me to jump to points in the movie)
Next I import to Compressor - All the markers (edit point markers as well as chapter markers that I have set...) DO show up in the Compressor preview window. All looks good...
I encode an h264 QT from compressor - but in the encoded QT, there are NO chapter markers present!
I attempted a workaround of extracting the text track from the original exported QT and "Adding to movie" of the h264 QT using quicktime. Then I turn off the text track but keep on the popup that says Chapters > Text Track under "Other Settings" in the properties window of the h264 QT. The chapters are then visible in the lower right of the viewer window. BUT - when I close the movie and "save" then re-open, they are gone...argh!
It has to be user-error, but I feel like I've covered all bases and searched this forum for similar problems, but still in the dark.
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Re: Chapter markers display in Compressor preview window but not in compressed Quicktime by Tom Donnelly on Oct 1, 2008 at 7:28:30 pm
Thanks, that is super-helpful.
I also found that I had not been setting each FCP marker to be a "chapter marker" in the marker dialog box (hit "m" twice). Once I did this everything worked smoothly even when batching with compressor...
