I've got some questions about the new hybrid MP4 format and using chapters with that format, especially in Davinci Resolve Studio (abbreviated DRS for the rest of this message). The chapters seem to work fine in my main media players MPC-BE and VLC, but they look and behave a little strange in DRS and I wonder if that's expected behavior or a bug.
This is how the chapter markers look like in the Edit tab, under Index > Markers. What's up with the duplicates? Is that expected behavior or a bug? The chapters are not shown as doubles in MPC-BE or VLC. Jumping between markers/chapters with Shift+up/down gets a bit tedious when they are shown this way and you have a lot of chapters. Regular markers can be removed when/if you don't need them anymore, which of course makes it easier to jump around quickly, but these embedded chapters can't be removed. In the Cut tab you can also use the ⏮ ⏭ buttons to move between cuts and markers, but they don't work at all with the embedded chapters, as they are not even shown on the timeline in that view.
On the timeline the embedded chapter markers look like they are singles, but that's just because there are two markers on the same timestamp.
On the Deliver tab I'm using Chapters from markers, but that option does not detect these embedded chapters, so the exported file does not contain any chapters.
I'm also using the DRS plugin YouTube Video Chapters Plus which creates a text file with the chapters which you can then copy/paste in the description in YouTube to enable chapters on that platform. This plugin also requires regular DRS markers and does not detect the embedded chapter markers from OBS.
With this new feature for OBS, I thought I would just be able to mark the chapters as I record, and then just cut, edit and export in DRS without having to fiddle around with markers anymore. Right now though, it seems like I got my hopes up a little too high when I first read about this feature. Hopefully the duplicates turn out to be a bug in either OBS or DRS and perhaps the chapter "based on marker" feature and YouTube plugin can be updated to support embedded chapters as well. As of now, I can at least use the feature to not have to scroll through endless clips on the hunt for certain event, as long as I remember to mark the chapters to begin with...
This is how the chapter markers look like in the Edit tab, under Index > Markers. What's up with the duplicates? Is that expected behavior or a bug? The chapters are not shown as doubles in MPC-BE or VLC. Jumping between markers/chapters with Shift+up/down gets a bit tedious when they are shown this way and you have a lot of chapters. Regular markers can be removed when/if you don't need them anymore, which of course makes it easier to jump around quickly, but these embedded chapters can't be removed. In the Cut tab you can also use the ⏮ ⏭ buttons to move between cuts and markers, but they don't work at all with the embedded chapters, as they are not even shown on the timeline in that view.
On the timeline the embedded chapter markers look like they are singles, but that's just because there are two markers on the same timestamp.
On the Deliver tab I'm using Chapters from markers, but that option does not detect these embedded chapters, so the exported file does not contain any chapters.
I'm also using the DRS plugin YouTube Video Chapters Plus which creates a text file with the chapters which you can then copy/paste in the description in YouTube to enable chapters on that platform. This plugin also requires regular DRS markers and does not detect the embedded chapter markers from OBS.
With this new feature for OBS, I thought I would just be able to mark the chapters as I record, and then just cut, edit and export in DRS without having to fiddle around with markers anymore. Right now though, it seems like I got my hopes up a little too high when I first read about this feature. Hopefully the duplicates turn out to be a bug in either OBS or DRS and perhaps the chapter "based on marker" feature and YouTube plugin can be updated to support embedded chapters as well. As of now, I can at least use the feature to not have to scroll through endless clips on the hunt for certain event, as long as I remember to mark the chapters to begin with...