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Add scene selections to non-iMovie movies Apps
I had movie I made and rendered to disk from a while ago that I wanted to burn to DVD. I also wanted to add those neat scene selection screens that iDVD4 has. I did some research and found out that if a movie has a chapter track, iDVD will automatically create the scene selection submenu for you. But how do you create the chapter track outside of iMovie and FCE/FCP? Simple, using Apple-supplied AppleScripts:
  1. Go to Apple's AppleScript QuickTime page and download the script set [3.7mb download].
  2. Open the movie you want to add chapter tracks to in QuickTime Player.
  3. Open and Run the "Create Chapter Track.scpt" from the scripts you just downloaded.
  4. Choose the Video track of the movie when prompted.
  5. Move the movie's playhead to the place where you want the chapter, then open and Run the "Add Chapter at Current Time.scpt". It will prompt you to name it.
  6. Repeat the last step until you are done. You can use the "Delete Chapter.scpt" to remove mistakes from your movie.
  7. Save the movie and then drop it onto iDVD and that's it! iDVD uses the track names to create the button names.
Enjoy!
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Add scene selections to non-iMovie movies
Authored by: arg on Feb 12, '04 12:21:35PM

Wow! I have 14 hours of video to edit, encode for the web and add chapters to. Ever add QT chapters the old fashioned way? It is torture. Thanks for this hint. It may be the single biggest time saver I've ever gotten off this site. And that's saying a lot as this is a great site!

Long live MacOSXHints!



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Add scene selections to non-iMovie movies
Authored by: FunkDaddy on Feb 12, '04 03:08:30PM

Another think I should have added was that you can us the Script menu item to launch al those scripts instead of using Script Editor. Comes in handy if you want to use it a lot. Just plop the Scripts in the ~/Library/Scripts/ folder and install the Scripts menu. Then you can just make a trip to the menubar to launch them.



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Add scene selections to non-iMovie movies
Authored by: roast_the_077 on Feb 15, '04 10:03:37PM

FunkDaddy, have you actually gotten this to work? I can't get iDVD3 to create submenus for the chapters, even though Quicktime Player shows them.

Maybe Chapter Markers (which iMovie creates and iDVD can use) are different than Chapter Tracks (which only Quicktime Player uses)?



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Add scene selections to non-iMovie movies
Authored by: nshockey on Feb 16, '04 05:16:52AM

I do believe iDVD4 is needed in order to recognize the chapter marks created in QuickTime.

nshockey
Lancaster, PA



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Add scene selections to non-iMovie movies
Authored by: jackr on Mar 10, '04 08:23:43AM

All this seems to work, but, as soon as the chaptermarks are added and saved everything becomes unbearable slow. Opening in QT as well as importing in IDVD. When importing in IDVD, a giant swapfile is created on the startup disk, which does not happen with the original file.
Is there a solution for this?



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Add scene selections to non-iMovie movies
Authored by: lgphoto on Apr 10, '04 10:48:13AM

I can't get iDVD4.0.1 to recognize the chapters after i've added them. In QT they are there but when the movie file is dragged onto iDVD i only get two chapters named 'start' and 'start 2' neither of which are the actual names of chapters.

Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? Or if this has ever worked for them?

I'm on 10.2.8. Thanks!



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