Enable non-iMovie movies' chapter markers in iDVD |
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Ever wonder why sometimes iDVD won't recognize the chapter track in the movie file you're trying to import? It turns out that just having a chapter track present in a QuickTime movie file isn't enough -- that chapter track also needs some undocumented settings applied to it in order for iDVD to recognize it as a chapter track, and to offer to make a scene menu when you import the video.Video exported from iMovie '06 contains these settings automatically, but if you edit your video in something other than iMovie, you're out of luck unless you want to hack the video file with a hex editor. So I've written a Java command line utility [8KB download | macosxhints mirror] to modify a .mov file that contains a text chapter track, and patch it so that iDVD recognizes it for what it is/ This utility automatically adds (or removes) the three "ma...
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