YouTube Chapters

Chapters come from notes. Tag a note Chapter and it marks a chapter at the note’s start; the note’s first line is the chapter’s title. Do it as you review, while you are listening anyway. See Notes and Directions.

See Them

Edit view shows each chapter as a purple flag on the ruler, at its time in the cut. A chapter whose start was cut sits at the next kept frame, marked with scissors.

Copy Them

Cut › Copy YouTube Chapters copies one line per chapter, m:ss Title, ready for your video’s description. For example:

0:00 Intro
0:42 Light
1:30 Sound
2:15 Keep going

When no chapter starts at 0:00, the list starts with 0:00 Intro, as YouTube needs. If YouTube wouldn’t show the list (fewer than three chapters, or one shorter than 10 seconds), an alert says why; the list is copied anyway.

After a render, Copy YouTube Chapters in the Export popover copies the times from the finished movie.