Export Markers to Chapter txt file

DustBunny wrote on 12/3/2008, 1:37 PM

I sometimes use DVD-Lab Pro for DVD authoring but it doesn't detect markers rendered into the MPEG-2 file from Vegas. Is there a script - or a way that I am missing - to export markers to a text file containing the marker timecode? Ideally, it might also export marker labels for subtitle import.

Thanks!

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Rosebud wrote on 12/3/2008, 5:39 PM

Have a look to this one:
Export Markers as TXT Frame Numbers

jetdv wrote on 12/4/2008, 6:16 AM

For another option: View - Edit Details choose to view Markers, and you can copy that entire grid and paste it into Excel and manipulate the data however is desired..

DustBunny wrote on 12/4/2008, 11:37 AM

Thank you both!

johnmeyer wrote on 12/4/2008, 2:18 PM

As much as I love scripts, I am a big fan of Ed's (jetdv's) approach. You simply click on the blank spot at the intersection of the row and column header in the Edit Details -> Marker view. Then press Ctrl-C to copy and then paste into Excel. You have to fiddle a little to get Excel not to screw up the timecodes. However, once you get that set, you can do marvelous things within Excel. When you are ready to put stuff back into Vegas, click on that blank spot again to select the entire area, and then take the stuff you have copied from Excel and paste it back into Vegas. Oh, and when you copy from Excel, don't copy the header row.

BTW, if you copy and then immediately paste the same markers back into the Edit Details view, everything will, of course be unchanged, except that all the markers will be re-numbered in the order in which they appear on the timeline. No big deal, but some people get upset that markers are numbered in the order in which you add them to the timeline.