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Dan Bridges
August 13th, 2008, 08:44 PM
How do I create a Table of Contents/track list that I can then paste into another program (MS Publisher) from the named markers in DVDA 5?

Graham Bernard
August 14th, 2008, 03:03 AM
Dan, I'm assuming you have the original Vegas Project? Check out the Edit Details View for MARKERS and copy paste that? Dunno about doing this from within DVDA, what ever flavour . .?

Grazie

Dan Bridges
August 14th, 2008, 05:57 AM
Graham, unfortunately that did not work. It shows 298 tracks but no marker labels.

Graham Bernard
August 14th, 2008, 07:05 AM
Can you SEE the Markers in Vegas? Where did the marker labels come from? Now I want to understand this.

Interesting

Grazie

Dan Bridges
August 14th, 2008, 04:21 PM
Can you SEE the Markers in Vegas? Where did the marker labels come from? Now I want to understand this.

Interesting

Grazie

I manually entered them ("M" key) to indicate the start of new items in a live concert recording.

Graham Bernard
August 14th, 2008, 11:37 PM
Wow! 298 Tracks!?

Dan? You entered them manually IN Vegas? Then you WILL have a list of these markers in Edit Detail View. I checked this yesterday. Make sure you use the Drop-Down menu in Edit Detail View to select Markers.

It was then a simple case of Highlight the info > Copy > Paste - and for my test it went straight into MS Notepad.

It does work. If not then I am still interested.

Grazie

Dan Bridges
August 16th, 2008, 03:22 AM
Wow! 298 Tracks!?

Dan? You entered them manually IN Vegas? Then you WILL have a list of these markers in Edit Detail View. I checked this yesterday. Make sure you use the Drop-Down menu in Edit Detail View to select Markers.

It was then a simple case of Highlight the info > Copy > Paste - and for my test it went straight into MS Notepad.

It does work. If not then I am still interested.

Grazie

Thank you for the guidance, Graham. That's what I want. I would have not have thought to look there without someone pointing it out.

Dan Bridges
August 16th, 2008, 05:02 PM
Some further observations. I had an out-of-sequence marker, #28, between #7 & #8. (I found out afterwards that I'd missed the start of another track). Well, when I rendered to mpeg-2 and opened it in DVDA 5, the markers were renumbered correctly, with #28 becoming #8. Also, in Vegas 8, using Graham's method of getting a list of marker labels to use as track names, marker #28 was in the list as the 8th item, so it was usable without needing to be relocated.

Richard Hunter
August 16th, 2008, 06:53 PM
Hi Dan. If you ever want to reorder the markers in Vegas so that the numbers are in running order, there is a way to do it.

In the Edit Details window, with Show Markers selected, select all the rows and then Ctl-X to cut them, then Ctl-V to paste them back again. When they are pasted back they willl be in sequence. Try it out on a dummy project first until you see how it works, because you can't undo this.

Richard

Dan Bridges
August 16th, 2008, 08:49 PM
Richard, I've tried this in Vegas 8b and it doesn't seem to work. In Edit Details | Markers, I see two columns: Position; Name. I can select a range in a column using the shift-key, and using this at the beginning & end of a column, I can select the whole column, but I can't select both columms at once, nor can I use Ctrl-A to select everything. Furthermore, once selected, while copy & paste are available, cut is grayed out.

Correction: just found out how to do it. You need to select the range of gray numbers on the the left. That selects both columns and you can then Ctrl-x. See example:

Richard Hunter
August 16th, 2008, 11:24 PM
Hi Dan. Yes that's right, it's just not so obvious at first. Glad you got it working.

Richard

Edward Troxel
August 17th, 2008, 12:29 PM
The marker NUMBERS really don't make any difference. It's the POSITION of the marker that counts.