Is there a way to add chapters to Long videos?

[dankhara]

Dear friends. I have a video that I edited that is 1 hour 35 minutes and I wanted to know if there is a way to add chapters to the project so I can skip to the desired part of the movie?
Thank you all for your help

[shotcut]

See this recent thread on the same subject.

Table of Contents

I’m currently working on an introductory video for our faculty and I realised that it would be nice to implement a table of contents of some sort to give viewers the chance to click on a certain topic in order to jump to the point in the video where the topic is being addressed. (like time stamps on youtube) Is such a feature provided by Shotcut?

[dankhara]

I have. That is why I am asking. Because I don’t want to make a table of contents. Just cuts in the movie so that I can jump to the next scene.

[Austin]

You didn’t read far enough. The discussion on chapter markers starts at post #4:

Table of Contents / Chapter Marks

This sounds more like chapter markers rather than a table of contents linking to a set of independent videos. Shotcut does not have native support for chapter markers (or TOC for that matter). For those willing to use FFmpeg command line to add chapter markers to a video after it is exported, here is a way to do it: Note that -map_metadata 1 and -map_chapters 1 must both be specified. Here is a description of the FFMETADATA file that says where in time the chapter marks go: https://ffmpeg…