Tutorial 2.C. – Add Chapters to the Main Video

• How to add Chapters to a Path item in a Playlist by entering timecode
• How to add Chapters to a Path item in a Playlist by importing a text file

1. Right-Click the Chapters icon in the Path Item and select “Add Chapter” from the context menu. You will see a new chapter listed in the playlist with the name “Chapter 1 – 00:00:00:00″ Chapter time codes in DoStudio are zero-based, so the first frame of video is always at timecode 00:00:00:00.
2. Right-Click the Chapters icon in the Path Item and select “Add Chapter” from the context menu to add a second chapter. You will see a new chapter listed in the playlist with the name “Chapter 2 – 00:00:00:00″.
3. Use your mouse to highlight the last four digits of Chapter 2′s time code in the Control Panel and type in “1000″ and press enter (you do not need to type in the colon). This will change the Chapter’s timecode value to “00:00:10:00″ – in other words, you have created a chapter 10 seconds into the video.
4. Right-Click the Chapters icon in the title and select “Add Chapter” from the context menu to add a third chapter. You will see a new chapter listed in the playlist with the name “Chapter 3 – 00:00:00:00″.
5. When entering Chapter 2′s timecode you only highlighted and changed the last four digits. For Chapter 3, use your mouse to highlight all of the digits of Chapter 3′s time code in the Control Panel and type in “00002000″ and press enter (you do not need to type in the colons). This will change the Chapter’s timecode value to “00:00:20:00″ – in other words, you have created a chapter 20 seconds into the video.

Repeat these steps to create 10 chapters at the following timecodes:

Chapter 1 – 00:00:00:00
Chapter 2 – 00:00:10:00
Chapter 3 – 00:00:20:00
Chapter 4 – 00:00:30:00
Chapter 5 – 00:00:40:00
Chapter 6 – 00:00:50:00
Chapter 7 – 00:01:00:00
Chapter 8 – 00:01:10:00
Chapter 9 – 00:01:20:00
Chapter 10 – 00:01:30:00

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To Add Chapters to the Main Video title by importing a Text file:

Now that we have shown you how to add chapters one at a time by entering timecode, here is an alternate method that can save you time.  DoStudio allows you to import chapters from a simple text file.

1. Expand the Main Video Playlist in the tree so that you can see Path Item, Segment and Chapters.  Start with an empty chapters list for your Main Video (it’s OK to have a chapter at 00:00:00:00 – this will not cause a duplicate chapter).
2. Right-click on the Chapters node and select “Import Chapters from Text File”
3. Select the MainVideo.txt file that is found in the DSA Demo Project/DSADemo.ChaptersXML/ folder.
4. You will now see ten chapters listed in the playlist tree.

The text file is a simple list of timecode numbers.  You can create it in any text editor.

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