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Originally Posted by Cela
AFAIK there is no general chapter generation program available. For my personal convenience I adopted a simple workaround.
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Your testing of VideoReDo was incomplete. BTW,m it is VRD, not VDR,
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* VideoRedo TV Suite HD (VDR) has also a hh:mm:ss:ff (example: 04:26:13:06 ) tc display window but does not support COPY/PASTE of its content. VDR comes with tc format hh:mm:ss:ff but allows to change it to hh:mm:ss.ff format. Furthermore it has a view option Show Frame Number which displays the frame number. The tc display field is display only! But double clicking on it displays an Enter TimeCode sub-window with sub-fields Hours, Minutes, Seconds and Frame#. Unlike in Premiere Elements it is not possible to COPY or PASTE the complete tc-value (example: 04:26:13:06 ) from or into these sub-fields. Thus COPY/PASTE is very limited, practically useless. But in Show Frame Number mode, the Frame number field inthe Enter Frame Number sub-window does support COPY/PASTE! Thus VDR is suited for step 4 in Frame Number mode. Depending on your authoring program a tc conversion program like ChapterGen is needed to convert the tc format.
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VRD can display time as hh:mm:ss:ff (DFTC or NDFTC for 29.97 video) or as frames. But, the biggest feature that you missed is that VRD can output a text file with frame values in the current display format. There are options as well, check them out. Make sure that At Scene Marker is checked.
To output a "chapter" text file manually, just go to the locations you want to marked as chapters. The press the "a" key to place a marker in the display. Set all of your markers, then in the File dropdown menu, do a save Chapter file.
Bingo, you have a text file with the chapters that you marked. No copy-n-paste required.