

Sometimes you might want to edit a film rate MPEG2 with pulldown by Exporting it to a non-iMovie codec like DVCPRO50, MJPEG B, or Component. So if you want to add a lot of chapters to an MPEG2 and are fussy about the hit points, you can use Metahoot to create the chapter list, save it to text, and massage the text file to get it in the comma-delimited form specified above. I may do a short guide for Sizzle 0.1, but for now I'll mention that the correct format for a Sizzle 0.1 chapter list isĠ:00:00,h:mm s,h:mm s,h:mm s,h:mm s,h:mm s, etc. I agree that Sizzle 0.1 is the best version to use: User havema-1 mentioned in this thread that Sizzle (freeware) lets you add user-defined chapter markers to an existing MPEG2 when authoring. (To play an MPEG2 in Metahoot, you'll need the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component.) However, you can still use Metahoot's visual interface to create a chapter list for an MPEG, save the chapter list to a text file, and paste it into Sizzle 0.1. Try again in Metahoot.)ĪFAIK, you can't use this direct method with MPEG files, even if you stuff an MPEG into a. If you don't see the chapters in QT Player, Toast or iDVD probably won't see them either. mov in QuickTime Player, you should be able to use the chapters to navigate.
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Then save as a reference movie and hand off to Toast or iDVD. It gives you a visual interface for playing the. Metahoot was designed to do many things, but you can ignore most of its widgets and just focus on chapter creation.
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Read this quick tutorial on how to use "Metahoot" to add chapter markers:

Or the pre-release 1.1.5 beta is supposed to work better with iDVD 5: Download the freeware Metadata Hootenanny 1.1.4 via Version Tracker: mov is too large or iMovie doesn't like the codec. mov file (not an MPEG2 file) before handing it off to Toast or iDVD? Sometimes it's inconvenient to add chapters in iMovie because the. Suppose you want to add user-defined chapters to a.

mov files that use video codecs like DV, MJPEG A, Media 100, etc. mov should play the two underlying movies seamlessly, and should hand off the content to an app like Toast. mov files (not MPEG2 files), you can use QuickTime Pro or BTV Pro (trial) to paste the second movie at the end of the first movie, then save as a reference movie which takes up practically no space.
