I use Final Cut express for editing home video, most of which I archive as computer video files (.dv and .mov) rather than DVD because I don't want any compression I can avoid.
However, I just cleaned up an hour long cabaret performance which I want to burn to DVD with chapter marks for each song. Adding the marks in FCE was no sweat. I exported HD video as a SD .mov file. iDVD has on option preferences - "Create chapter submenus"- which I checked, as per an Apple video tutorial online. It is then supposed to recognize chapter marks (which include titles) from video in which they were created.
It doesn't. When I tried to go the design route it didn't see them. When I went with the "One Step DVD" option, it wrote the .mov file to the DVD without any chapters.
I'm running in Snow Leopard and using the latest and last version of FCE4 and version 7.2 of iDVD, which I presume came with the Snow Leopard since it is not in iLife. I haven't tracked versions of iDVD.
Any ideas anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Gundor
However, I just cleaned up an hour long cabaret performance which I want to burn to DVD with chapter marks for each song. Adding the marks in FCE was no sweat. I exported HD video as a SD .mov file. iDVD has on option preferences - "Create chapter submenus"- which I checked, as per an Apple video tutorial online. It is then supposed to recognize chapter marks (which include titles) from video in which they were created.
It doesn't. When I tried to go the design route it didn't see them. When I went with the "One Step DVD" option, it wrote the .mov file to the DVD without any chapters.
I'm running in Snow Leopard and using the latest and last version of FCE4 and version 7.2 of iDVD, which I presume came with the Snow Leopard since it is not in iLife. I haven't tracked versions of iDVD.
Any ideas anyone has would be greatly appreciated.
Gundor
