Add scene selections to non-iMovie movies

Feb 12, '04 10:47:00AM

Contributed by: FunkDaddy

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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