Little green markers ? ? ?

[654321]

I noticed that you can click on the top of the time line to put green triangles at various places at the top of the story board. I am not sure what they are for other than to mark a place on the timeline. I also noticed that when I burned the video to disk, there was a skip or brief pause at the exact location where the green marker was located. So I have two questions:
1 Was the "skip" at the marker purely coincidental or was it caused by the marker and
2 What are the markers for?

[Ken Berry]

If it is a green marker, then it is a chapter point. In other words, you can select, while editing, where a chapter break should occur. In theory, if you right click a marker, you can even assign a name to the chapter, but in practice this never seems to work in the sense of carrying over to when you are building your menu. We generally recommend that you foget about naming chapters until you are building menus in the burning module.

You will see from where the red arrow is pointing in the photo below a +/- icon and a small downward pointing arrow to its right.

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If you float your mouse over these you will see that you can toggle the Chapter points. And the downward arrow opens the Chapter/Cue Point manager. If you don't want to have chapter points, but want to mark spots in the video for some reason or other e.g. where to have a dramatic beat of music etc, then choose Cue Point. This will insert a blue marker instead of the gree one.

As for the momentary blip when your rendering reached the chapter points, I don't think that should happen -- though I cannot say for sure as I never use chapter marks inserted during editing; only those inserted during the building of the menu. I never get a blip that way.

[654321]

Thanks for all the info. That clarifies things. Interestingly I took the chapter markers out, and burned another DVD. The skip was gone. So for whatever reason, the chapter markers definitely were the cause of the problem.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi
Interesting……….

Thanks for the information, we are aware of problems using chapter points in the edit timelines, but didn’t realise they caused problems after burning a DVD.
Like Ken i dont use them..........but do use the line as a Cue Marker as mentioned by Ken…..

To remove all points right click the Points line and select Remove All…….

[654321]

Just to check, I put the chapter markers back, burned another DVD, and sure enough the glitches were back wherever there are chapter markers.