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Chapter marker thumbnail pin

According to the FCPX 10.1.2 User Guide (pg.153) a thumbnail pin associated with each chapter marker allows to select the image that will show up in the exported menu for that marker.

Well, after adding the chapter marker I find the pin in the timeline, I move it to select an image but: 1) nothing changes in the FCP X viewer, which does NOT show the selected image, and (worse) 2) in fact nothing happens in the exported movie: Share/Export File (added) with Format: computer, Video Codec: H.264 Faster Encode, Resolution 1920x1080.

The export fully works, all chapters are there in the right position, but each chapter is associated with the frame under its marker, NOT the frame I selected for it using the pin (which lays ignored on the frame I chose...).

Well: almost "fully" works: it can be played only by Quicktime X, not Quicktime 7. Not a big issue. And probably this has nothing to do with the pin problem...

Is there a way to make it work as in the user guide ?

Thanks

Piero

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), FCP X - Canon HF M56 PAL

Posted on Aug 29, 2014 2:56 AM

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Russ H

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Aug 29, 2014 7:29 AM in response to PieroF

PieroF wrote:

So I'm stuck, unless I buy Compressor ?

Edit: Clicked too soon.

I'm afraid that might be right – that the only way to preserve the markers and poster frames and wind up with 44.1 kHz is via Compressor,

Russ

PieroF Author

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Aug 29, 2014 7:40 AM in response to Alchroma

Thanks to all (hi Tom and Al) for trying helping me.

I'm doing myself some tests right now and in fact it seems QT7 and MPEG Stream clip simply refuse to open .mp4 (FCPX generated) movies with markers while they have no problem with markers in .mov files (eg. Share/Master Movie). If I convert a Master File with markers into mp4 using MPEG Streamclip QT7 can open it, but... there no more chapter markers !

These results seem consistent with your own tests..

Piero

PieroF Author

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Aug 29, 2014 8:22 AM in response to PieroF

OK, I found out that by just changing the postfix ".mp4" into ".m4v" of the movies with markers they can be played by QT7 and converted byMPEG Streamclip!

Easy enough.

Thanks for your help

Piero

Chapter marker thumbnail pin