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mcp
31st March 2002, 03:14
Please dont laugh...
I did it a few times ago and it worked fine,but now nothing goes anymore.
my chapters.chp file looks like that:
$Spruce_IFrame_List

00:00:00:00
00:02:56:80
00:08:30:64
00:12:38:68
00:15:45:88
00:23:15:16
00:31:11:48
00:37:39:92
00:43:56:92
00:53:33:60
00:59:45:40
01:05:55:64
01:24:25:84
01:27:32:52
01:33:04:80

and I cannot import it anymore into my maestro-project.
Who the hell knows why???
Maestro tells me for about two hours: "0 chapter points imported."
What for other settings must I make in Maestro?
(auto-name:index based;prefix name:chapter;neXt gop=set,unique name=set)

:devil: :confused:

Nogami
31st March 2002, 19:23
What does the time on your timeline start at? A lot of encoders start the time at 01:00:00:00 instead of 00:00:00:00, so your chapter marks wouldn't match up for the first hour.

Inwards
31st March 2002, 20:22
Originally posted by mcp
Please dont laugh...
I did it a few times ago and it worked fine,but now nothing goes anymore.
my chapters.chp file looks like that:
$Spruce_IFrame_List

00:00:00:00
00:02:56:80
00:08:30:64
00:12:38:68
00:15:45:88
00:23:15:16
00:31:11:48
00:37:39:92
00:43:56:92
00:53:33:60
00:59:45:40
01:05:55:64
01:24:25:84
01:27:32:52
01:33:04:80

and I cannot import it anymore into my maestro-project.
Who the hell knows why???
Maestro tells me for about two hours: "0 chapter points imported."
What for other settings must I make in Maestro?
(auto-name:index based;prefix name:chapter;neXt gop=set,unique name=set)

:devil: :confused:

The time should be formatted like

00:00:00.00

IE: Change the last colon to a period.

mcp
31st March 2002, 22:16
I tried it and it didnīt worked.

$Spruce_IFrame_List

00:00:00.00
00:02:56.16
00:08:44.44
00:13:10.68
00:18:02.20
.
.
.
.
.

:confused:

also seting the last column to zero doesnīt work.....

jdobbs
1st April 2002, 14:58
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't done this in a while. But as I remember it, I think the last set should not be input into Maestro as a percentage but as a frame number. "hh:mm:ss:ff" -- that means it should never be higher than 25 on PAL and 30 on NTSC??? If I'm right then you would have to convert your numbers by taking the last set and multiplying:

Example for NTSC: .80 x 30 = 24

So 01:15:21:80 would be 01:15:21:24

ChapterXtractor output would have to be converted in this way.

mcp
2nd April 2002, 13:09
Doesnīt work either...