Chapter marker thumbnail pin

AFAIK, chapter thumbnails work in 10.1.3.

Are you saying that QT7 won't open your file at all or just doesn't display menu screens. (As you know, chapters are navigated from the drop down on the right of the play bar. Not very fancy.)

Russ

PieroF wrote:

Thumbnails: I'll wait for my eventual update to 10.1.3 (btw: is it safe or not ? i read bad news in this forum...).

There are inevitably problems with updates. Some of those turn out to be specific to certain configurations and a small number (usually) will be universal. Since we are know in an era of download-only installs, I believe everyone should heed Apple's best practices advice.

While this doc describes preserving events and projects, the same principles apply to libraries. If you think you may need to revisit a library, it should;t should not be updated.

And it should go without saying that updating while in the midst of a project is always risky.

That said, I haven't found 10.1.3 to be particularly buggy. But for whatever reason (knock on wood) my experience since 10.0.3 has been relatively smooth.

Getting back to QuickTime 7, I have also run into that message occasionally. Try exporting with the markers/thumbnails with the Apple Device preset and see whether it opens, It should.

Russ

If you have Compressor 4.1, you can make a custom setting with 44.1 audio and choose Compressor Setting from the share menu. If you don't have C 4.1 and don't want it, then you'll need to recompress it in something like MPEG Streamclip (or an earlier version of Compressor). Not sure whether running the file through Streamclip will preserve the chapter markers. That will need to be tested.

Russ

The Poster frames for Chapter Markers have never worked correctly.😟

Al

Hey Al.

You mean for disk menus (agree completely) or also for QuickTimes movies and MP4s?

Russ

Not sure on that Russ as it's not a thing I regularly do.

The Chapter markers poster frames for DVD are a definite No Go.

Al

Not working for me. I export a master file in H.264. The poster frame in the marker is the frame under the marker not the frame under the pin. If a marker is in mid-transition that's what I get. If the marker is on a frame of black and I move the pin a few frames before I get the black frame in the QuickTime marker list, notice chapter at 0:10 and 0:14.

Tom,

Haven't tried every setting by any means but he pin location seems to be respected in the h,264 mp4 and movs that I've tried.

DVD menus, OTOH, don't display anything except text.

One thing I don't get at all is what Piero described with QT7 refusing to open some files with markers. I ran into this as well. Also, MPEG Streamclip refused to open them.

Russ

Interesting. Yes, it works for me in H.264 MPEG-4 but not in H.264 QuickTime. QT7 can open the QuickTime movie with markers, but not the MPEG-4 movie with markers.

Just tried a few exports.

This is what I'm getting:

.m4v Shred to Apple devices actually show the thumbnail under the pin, Wow, works as the designer intended. 🙂

.mov Master file on the other hand shows the Marker frame, not the Pin frame. 😟

Quicktime 7 shows the Marker text and NO thumbnails.

Streamclip shows Marker text and NO thumbnails.

Al

Mine seems to work with QT7:

Al