Retaining Markers from render to render?

mickbadal wrote on 1/5/2008, 5:17 AM

1) I place markers on my video in VMS, render choosing "save markers to output file". Naturally in DVDA, these are input as chapters complete with the text I want.

2) I keep the output file from step #1 above (that obviously contains all the marker information), but get rid of the original source to save space. Time goes on...then...

3) Let's say I now want to edit that output file - perhaps change a small amount of video between markers - and re-render. When I pull the output file into a VMS project, the markers are there, but they appear as "little markers" in the events, not big markers across the timeline complete with text. If I re-render this file, the markers are lost. I find this wierd that the markers appear in this way, because all the information is still there - for example if I add the file to a new DVDA project, all the chapters appear with the text.

I know an alternate is to add the markers in DVDA, but I prefer adding them in VMS (I just feel like I have better control over their placement; when I've tried it in DVDA, some markers have ended up off by a few frames).

How can I get the markers to re-appear normally?

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mickbadal wrote on 1/8/2008, 6:02 AM
No one has an answer to this? Or perhaps I didn't explain it very clearly?

Thanks,
Mickbadal
Chienworks wrote on 1/8/2008, 6:10 AM
You could move to each marker in the rendered file and press M to create a timeline marker.

What i do in your situation though is after rendering, i turn off ripple, delete everything from the timeline, and drag the newly rendered file onto the timeline. Clear project media and save as a new project file. This saves it with the old markers on the new file.
mickbadal wrote on 1/8/2008, 6:39 AM
"You could move to each marker in the rendered file and press M to create a timeline marker."

I know, that's what I did do - but I want to avoid rebuilding the markers every time.

"What i do in your situation though is after rendering, i turn off ripple, delete everything from the timeline, and drag the newly rendered file onto the timeline. Clear project media and save as a new project file. This saves it with the old markers on the new file."

This is a very nice workaround. Thanks for this suggestion!