Maestro + Wrong ammount of chapters.

[King.inter]

Does anyone know why Maestro SOMETIMES gives the wrong ammount of chapters, when you import them? E.G. You have something like 27 chapters & it comes up with 0 - chapters or just the wrong number of chapters

:confused:

[fletch]

PAL or NTSC ?

[Commander XJL]

I'm sick of this too, Maestro either won't import them at all or it imports some of them, for me it seems to import 7 a lot then not all the others. I notice when I have to encode with CCE then run pulldown it always imports them right, but when I use the original m2v file I have problems

[Matthew]

Commander XJL, original m2vs have a non-zero timecode, e.g. 00:59:32:20. This figure has to be added to each chapter point in the chp file ;)

I made an excel spreadsheet that will do this easy as pie ;)

[King.inter]

PAL - It does it with CCE encoded & straight from dvd.

P.S It also gives me either 0 or 7 chapters too :confused:

[fletch]

This is the method I use, its probably not the best way but it consistantly works for me -

1) Download DVD-R Multi-Calculator V1.02 ( http://www.dvdguru.net/index.php?menu=down )

2) Note the time on the wallclock in Maestro after you have dragged your video assett onto the timeline (For this example I will use 01:00:00:00) - DO NOT RESET THE WALLCLOCK

3) Enter this figure into the calculator you just downloaded (in the Chapter Delay Calculator section at the top) - Make note of the ms result (using 01:00:00:00 the result is 3600000)

4) Fire up Chapter Xtracter and enter this figure (3600000) in the offset box (far right bottom corner next to 'Last Chapter Bug Fix"..

5) Load up your IFO file and convert to Maestro format..

6) Import into Maestro and all your chapters will load up.

Cheers

Fletch

[Andykard]

I find this same problem with m2v files demuxed from movie. I follow the suggestion made in a previous thread and it works every time. Keep an m2v that you have previously recompressed handy (preferably a long one so you can use it for all instances). Add this as the movie asset in Maestro, then import your chapters, they should now come in with no problem. Then delete the movie asset and bring in the correct movie. The chapters remain and are now correct with the correct movie.

[old-hack]

If you are importing chapers, remove any formatting options for chapters in the chapters properties window of DVD Maestro (right click on the chapters line and select properties instead of "import chapters"). I've seen chapters get truncated during import until I set chapter formatting to "off". Clear all checkmarks except "off".