It would be very good if this worked. I've tried & I am unable. A friend told me Ultimate S could do it, but I couldn't make it work. Please, can anyone figure this out.
"Never tried this, but just had reason to do so. Imported the audio into DVDA. Didn't work. Should it?"
Probably not. The markers in a DVD have to be at frame boundaries and the markers attached to an audio file might not be In fact the markers in a DVD have to be on an "I" frame so the restriction is even more specific come to think of it.
If you want to play something in a DVD which is audio only I'd suggest you encode a corresponding video stream of say black, you can use a very low bitrate, and attach the markers you need to that.
Because the .sfl contains the markers. That's why.
You don't get one with a .wav file because .wav files can contain extra metadata blocks for the markers. However, MP3/MPEG/AC3 files do not. Hence the need for an extra file for this information.
Who said anything about audio-only DVD ? The OP only mentioned importing an audio-only track into DVDA, which presumably matched up with a Video track, but not necessarily.
Audio and/or video, surely embedded Markers or Regions could snap to the frame boundaries in DVDA ...?
Go in internal preferences (Ctrl+ Shift + Options>preferences)
Set "Media markers in video file" to FALSE.
And you should be able to load markers from audio files.
What I did was render the audio of a video with markers from Vegas, giving two files mkrtest.ac3 and mkrtest.ac3.sfl.
I opened DVDA after previously setting media markers in video to false. I then dragged the mkrtest.ac3 file to the timeline audio track. The audio is now present but I see no markers on the timeline. Where did I go wrong?
I then dragged the mkrtest.ac3 file to the timeline audio track.
Be sure to not drag file to a menu timeline (there is no marker in a menu).
Drag it to the DVD structure (the left of the screen) and you should see the markers.
- when set "Media markers in video file" = TRUE, markers in Video file are automatically used, markers in Audio are ignored.
- when set "Media markers in video file" = FALSE, pressing "Load Markers" icon uses markers in Audio file, markers in Video file are ignored.
Thus if your workflow is that markers are always in same places in both Video & Audio files it could make sense to leave "Media markers in video file" = FALSE
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