About Chapters

RoadMovie provides an easy way to index your movie with chapters, this is done by adding a chapter track.

A chapter track is a type of text track that provides an index to chapters or sections of your movie. The list of chapters, each of which links to a part of the movie, appears as a title or a pop-up menu in the movie controller.
What kinds of QuickTime movies benefit from a chapter track?

Compilations of movies, such as a film festival program
Audio movies with multiple music selections or movements
Recorded news events
Educational movies
Scientific and medical movies
Any movie of significant length whose content can be divided into definite sections

Adding Chapters to your Movie


Adding a chapter track is easy. Just navigate to the Chapters pane using the main toolbar.

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Then click "Add chapters to the exported movie"

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You will now be able to add and remove chapters.

To add a Chapter


Navigate the movie to a point in the movie where you want the chapter index to appear.

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Click the "Add" button with the + sign and your chapter will be added to the table view to the right.

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Edit the text of the chapter and continue to add more chapters if needed.

This is what it might look like when you're done...

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And this is what it looks like on the iPhone!

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This is what chapters looks like in fullscreen mode in iTunes. Neat!

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To remove Chapters


Select the chapters you want to delete in the table view and click the minus button.

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Preview Chapters


Click the Preview button the preview our movie with chapters.

A note about Chapters


A movie with chapters may not be playable on all devices. It's known to work in iTunes, iPod, iPhone and on your Apple TV.