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150Compressor User Guide
Change the default marker type
When you add a new marker, it’s automatically set as a chapter marker. You can change
this default so new markers are always added as one of the other types of markers.
• Click the “Modify marker settings” pop-up menu in the Compressor preview area and
choose an item in the Default Marker submenu.
Specify properties for chapter and podcast markers
You can specify the properties of a chapter or podcast marker in the Marker inspector.
Note: A podcast can have both chapter markers and podcast markers. The only difference
is that a viewer can navigate directly to a chapter marker but can’t navigate to a
podcast marker.
1. Select a job in the Compressor batch area, then select a marker in the preview area.
2. In the Marker inspector, click the Type pop-up menu, then choose either Chapter
or Podcast.
3. Enter a name for the marker in the Name field.
During playback of a transcoded file, chapter marker names are displayed on Apple
playback devices, in QuickTime Player, and in DVD menus. Podcast marker names are
not displayed.
4. Enter a web address in the URL field.
When viewing the transcoded file, you can click the URL to open a web browser and
view a website.
5. Select an image to be displayed at the marker point by choosing an option from the
Image pop-up menu:
• Frame: Uses the frame on which the marker is placed as the display image. To use a
different frame in the source file, enter a different timecode value in the viewer that
appears at the bottom of the Marker inspector.
• File: Uses an image file that you select via the window that appears. To change the
image file after you’ve already added it to the Marker inspector, click Choose, then
select a different image file.
Add markers using a chapter marker list
You can use Compressor to create a list of timecode points (using values that match the
timecode on the track’s video clip) and then import that list to create chapter markers.