I have made a short movie in Final Cut Pro X and transferred it to DVD. Although I have no chapters, a little book image appears on my DVD menu. Can I get rid of this?

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I have made a short movie in Final Cut Pro X and transferred it to DVD. Although I have no chapters, a little book image appears on my DVD menu. Can I get rid of this?

I have made a 10 minute movie in Final Cut Pro X and burned it to DVD. I do not have chapters. I have a background picture with title overlay made in Photoshop as my Menu page. When I play the DVD on TV a small white cartoon of a book appears on the lower right side of the screen. Can I get rid of this?

Final Cut Pro X, iOS 10.3.3

Posted on Feb 27, 2018 3:24 PM

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TennisKaty Author

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Mar 1, 2018 5:17 PM in response to Alchroma

Yes. I get a house. On the left there is another Play button under the main one. and "Chapter 00:05:00" Click on the Play button and it goes to five minutes in even though there is no marker there.

At one point, clicking around on the left menu I got a popup menu (screenshot attached).

Kay

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TennisKaty Author

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Mar 2, 2018 1:46 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Hi Tom,

The reason I think there is a storyline there is because my index says there is a storyline there and there is a start of scene symbol in the viewer.

Will try to attach screen shots but they keep getting redacted.

Kay

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TennisKaty Author

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Mar 3, 2018 12:03 PM in response to Alchroma

Thanks, Al. I guess the reason a screen shot of the full screen gets redacted is because it shows my first and last name? Thats the only personal information I can see. Anyway, below are 2 partial screen shots of the area where the problem is... couldn't fit them all in one.

I looked up "phantom marker" and got this advice: "Export project to XML. Open with Text Wrangler. Erase unwanted chapter marker. Open corrected XML in FCP X. Shall try this?

Kay

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Alchroma

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Feb 27, 2018 8:02 PM in response to TennisKaty

TennisKaty wrote:

When I play the DVD on TV a small white cartoon of a book appears on the lower right side of the screen. Can I get rid of this?

Yes. Make sure there in no Chapter markers anywhere in the timeline.

The little book icon should only be there if you have told FCP X>Share>DVD to add the Markers.

Unless your issue is something different??

Post a screen shot if you can.

Al

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TennisKaty Author

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Feb 28, 2018 12:25 PM in response to Alchroma

Thank you Al. As you may guess, I am very new to FCP X. I did not add any markers on purpose. I do have some compound clips and some tags. Can either tags or screenshots create markers that I didn't place deliberately? I don't see anything that looks like markers on the time line. Tried to do a screen shot of the DVD open page but it just came out a grey fog. Here are two menu shots.

Kay

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Alchroma

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Mar 1, 2018 5:34 PM in response to TennisKaty

The top play button with a timecode value is a Chapter Marker (or at least some sort of "Phantom" marker), sounds like it's set to start a 5 minutes in or possible 5 seconds.

Why it's invisible is a mystery to me.

Go to the timeline, zoom in to both these areas and determine if there is anything out of the ordinary.

Can't be more specific than that. Post a screen shot if anything comes to light.

Have you trashed the FCP X preferences?

Hold Option-Command as you launch FCP X to do this.

Al

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TennisKaty Author

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Mar 2, 2018 1:28 PM in response to Alchroma

The timeline at 5 minutes in does show something strange. There is a clip with a storyline embedded in it, although the clip seems to run smoothly when playing back the timeline. (Screenshot below).

I tried to lift this clip and replace it with the original clip out of the browser, but the storyline insert did not go away. I am a little timid about trashing FCP X preferences, but can try that you think it will help.

Kay

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Tom Wolsky

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Mar 2, 2018 1:55 PM in response to TennisKaty

That’s the first frame of shot indicator. Is there any secondary storyline in the timeline at that point?

Make a snapshot duplicate of the project. With the original project open select the storyline in the index and delete it. What happens?

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TennisKaty Author

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Mar 2, 2018 5:11 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I deleted the storyline in the index. Also, I trashed my Preferences. Then tried again. Did not actually burn another DVD, but playing my disk image with the DVD player, the book still shows up, still points to 5 minutes in, although there is nothing you can see there on the timeline or in the index.

Kay

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Alchroma

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Mar 2, 2018 6:32 PM in response to TennisKaty

"Will try to attach screen shots but they keep getting redacted."

The Hosts removed some private info in your screen shot/s.

User Command-Shift-4 then drag and area required, a PNG file will appear on your desktop.

Drag this file into your post or click the camera icon.

It would be helpful to have a close up of that particular 5 minute in section where the weird marker is.

Al

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TennisKaty Author

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Mar 5, 2018 2:37 PM in response to Alchroma

Just for a test, I tried removing the music clip altogether. Didn't help - the book is still there on my DVD title. One other thing, I separated video and audio for the clip at location 5:00, because I need more "boat noise" to cover the next scene, which is a still. could that possibly have caused the problem?

Kay

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