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Author:	Topic: FYI: Chapter markers in QT movies AFTER compression
MattDavis Member
	Posted: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:27PM	Email Print Text-only View thread
	Here's how to get the chapter markers you placed in FCP to survive the path through squeeze/compressor/whatever to make a Progressive Download QT file with a pop-up chapter menu as part of the controller bar - it's from memory, but I'm doing it more and more: Name your chapter markers with labels (inc spaces) that are short but meaningful. The text of these 'Intro' labels will appear on your final QT movie. Export with Chapter Markers from FCP to make your master movie for Squeeze to, erm, squeeze (or compressor to compress, whatever). Open it in QuickTime player (I assume you're using QT Pro - if not, upgrade. It's necessary and worth it). In QT Player, Edit menu --> Enable Tracks. Your QT Master movie should have a text track. Disable the text track by clicking the ON button - it switches to OFF. Save your movie. In Squeeze/etc, create your compressed movie from your movie now WITHOUT the chapter markers - otherwise it will be a white stripe on top of your movie. Once compression has finished, you have two movies. Open your master with disabled chapters and re-enable it. Edit menu --> Extract tracks to take the text track from the Master, copy it, and 'Add' rather than 'Paste' it into your Squeezed movie. Your squeezed movie probably has a white bar with your label along the top. Edit menu --> Enable Tracks --> Disable text track. Movie menu --> Movie Properties: From the Movie pop-up, select Text Track. From the right hand pop-up, select 'Make Chapter'. Now for the magic. Make the Video Track the Chapter Owner track. Maybe a good thing to save as self contained... That should do it. Like I said, from memory. HTH
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