How to Export Markers in DaVinci Resolve 17 (for YouTube Video Chapters) | Quick Tip Tuesday

[@seanpaulross3963]

Update for Davinci Resolve 18 for anyone confused, they have moved the "export edit index" function to its own spot under the menu accessed by clicking the three dots of the edit index itself (the place where "show markers" was located). You select the three dots, and it will be at the bottom of the list. Make sure you have the timeline open that you want to export markers from.

[@WisebuyIsrael]

Thank you!

[@relivethedayweddingfilms]

this was driving me crazy - couldn't even find it in the manual - thx

[@Tamko_Music]

Thank you, it was very helpful. You can use a formula in Google Sheets or Excel to remove frames: =LEFT(B2,LEN(B2)-3) Just create an empty column to the right from your original timecode, and put it there. B2 is the first cell from your video, LEN means "length" of the string, and -3 means how many symbols to remove. Then you just drag this formula down through the whole table, and you are done.

[@JasonYadlovski]

Yes! I just made an updated video about this and I included that in it. 😜👍

[@ruudbremer]

quick tip: when you use notepad++ (and some other programs) you can select column in text. When holding ALT you can click and drag the column you need to delete. This will select text in underlaying lines only in the column width you create when dragging the mouse. This way you can easily select the last digits from the time code.

[@JasonYadlovski]

That’s awesome, thanks so much for posting the tip! 😁👍💯 thank you for watching too!

[@JohnPap_Net]

Just to add to the list of editors and word processors, you can select columns in Microsoft Word and in EditPad as well. 😊

[@JasonYadlovski]

Awesome, thanks! I’m sure it works with Google sheets too. 👍😁

[@techfacts6076]

@@JasonYadlovski pls make a tutorial on postgreSQL database tutorial and how to edit a video in team collab. using resolve

[@techfacts6076]

@@JasonYadlovski I hope u will upload the tutorial

[@StephanCremer]

This is great - thanks for sharing. I want to add markes/chapters to my old videos and this is pretty easy now!

[@JasonYadlovski]

👍😁

[@WillGibbons]

Unbelievably helpful. I didn't know this was possible! When I did a search and found a good tutorial on it, made my day!

[@JasonYadlovski]

Awesome, thanks for checking out the video Will! It’s a great tip, I use it often when I have a lot of markers to make chapters out of. 😁👍

[@DJJulzNJ]

Thank you for this! Watched this video before and then forgot and needed it again haha

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome! I have to do the same thing sometimes, go back to my old videos, and remember how to do something. 😜

[@ArleiOliveira]

Hi Jason, thank you!!! I searched in Davinci Resolve manual and didn't find. Your videos are my first source of knowledge about Davinci Resolve now :)

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome! Glad you are finding my channel helpful!😁👍

[@JackMili]

Not what I am looking for but handy! Thank you!

[@WinVault]

Thanks I was wondering about this recently!

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome! Definitely a handy feature to know about. 😁👍💯

[@CoreyHunter]

Best channel for Davinci tips. Thank you for all your great tutorials! 👍

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome, and thank you so much for watching and being a part of the community, I appreciate it! 😁👍

[@Anti_Woke]

Very handy. Well done Jason

[@JasonYadlovski]

Thanks for checking out the video! 😁👍

[@SoundFilms]

Super helpful! Thanks, man. A client of ours for a somewhat sensitive project wanted a transcript of the interviews we conducted in list format and this was perfect.

[@JasonYadlovski]

You're welcome! Glad this worked out well for you!

[@TRUESTORIES-YT]

Watchin' and learnin'! Thanks, again, for your professional and easy to understand video tutorials, Jason!🌝 I just applied this to a nearly 3 hour deposition video I just finished editing.

[@JasonYadlovski]

Awesome! Thanks so much for checking out the video! 😁👍

[@donnfelkeryt]

Yesssss. You’re the man. I was just thinking about this two days ago.

[@JasonYadlovski]

Awesome! Love when that happens. Thanks for watching! 😁👍💯

[@uniworkhorse]

Super powerful, great tip!

[@JasonYadlovski]

👍😁

[@GuidoValdata]

This is gold, thanks a lot!

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome!

[@UHStudio]

Super useful!! Thank you!

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome! I love this one when I’ve got tons of markers, makes it super easy to use them. 😁👍 thank you for watching!

[@thetravisgreene]

What CAN'T Jason do. I owe this guy half my rate.

[@JasonYadlovski]

Haha, glad I’m able to help you! I feel like I hardly know anything in the world of DaVinci Resolve. 😜

[@nicko5566]

Great tip as always!

[@JasonYadlovski]

Thanks! 😁👍

[@JustCuzRobotics]

Phenominal time saver, thank you!

[@JasonYadlovski]

You're welcome! Love this tip for when I make longer videos with lots of markers. 😁👍

[@natashatheresa]

Ahhhhh this is great to know, I was wondering if there was a more efficient way to do this!!!

[@JasonYadlovski]

This works great for me. 😁👍 thanks for watching!

[@ShutterlabCreative]

Great tip. Subscribed

[@JasonYadlovski]

Thanks so much, I appreciate it! 💯😁👍 I hope you find lots of good stuff on my channel. 😁

[@adifoto6362]

Thanks, another important tip to know.

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome! Thanks for watching! 👍😁

[@BoardGameNation]

Solid video! How did you name the different Markers along the way?

[@JasonYadlovski]

Thanks! Once you add the marker just double click on the marker icon on your timeline and it will open a window where you can add whatever you want. 👍😁

[@BoardGameNation]

@@JasonYadlovski Thanks! I will give that a try.

[@JasonYadlovski]

Here’s a a video I made about it if you want to see it in action. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bny5gmOIpKl2iNE

[@blur-media-co3512]

I had nearly 5000 markers I needed toe export. This saved my bacon. Thank you.

[@JasonYadlovski]

Holy smokes, that’s a lot of markers! 😜 glad you were able to get them exported, saved a lot of work I bet. Best of luck on the project!

[@blur-media-co3512]

@@JasonYadlovski Yeah. Its just a lot of tracing specific things. Being able to put everything in to an excel chart has really helped. Its a shame Premiere doesn't have this ability. I specifically needed to export the sequence timecode and not the clip timecode because a bunch of my clips were corrupted and needed to be cut up to maintain proper timing and synch on my multicam sequence.

[@WokeSoros]

Excellent video. Subscribed.

[@JasonYadlovski]

Thanks so much for the sub! I appreciate it!

[@fcunionbristol]

If using Excel, use this formula to get rid of the frames and the hour code: =RIGHT(LEFT(timecodecell,8),5) Or just this to get rid of the frames: =LEFT(timecodecell,8) (replace timecodecell with the cell reference of the time)

[@JasonYadlovski]

Thanks for sharing!

[@CraftyKaname2]

Perfect! This formula works in Google Sheets as well! Thanks so much.

[@phoenixankaa]

Thanks so much was really wondering how to do this,

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome!

[@LensMyth]

Trying to solve a puzzle of my own led me here. Good video! I need to post multiple videos from a single timeline. Within Davinci, posting directly to KZbin works great for most, and it's fast, but some of the videos fail to upload so I upload those manually. How do I get the markers to export properly when the In/Out of the video to be exported starts hours into the timeline and I need it to say 0:00 at the beginning?

[@JasonYadlovski]

Thanks! So for those cases, if you are exporting the video from 'hours into the video' you're going to have to make new markers or modify the timecode so that it matches match with the new export. I think I'd just try to make a new timeline with the portion of the video you need. I think you can copy the markers too and then on the new timeline, it will be correct starting at 0:00. Does that make sense?

[@LensMyth]

@@JasonYadlovski Thanks, that is a reasonable solution for me to do once in a while. (in edit page, r-click above in-out bar and "create compound clip from in/out" and drop that into a new timeline, and somehow copy over markers) I'd like to learn to copy markers for many reasons such as for copying timeline markers onto the clips below, since if I move clips around I lose all my markers...

[@crocodiledundee096]

Marvelous! Did I miss whether this works for Resolve 16 as well?

[@JasonYadlovski]

Hi! I believe this will work on DR16 as well, but I'm not 100% sure. I've been on 17 since the 1st beta. Give it a try, hopefully it works!

[@crocodiledundee096]

@@JasonYadlovski ok, thanks! Love your videos. Yours are one of my go to videos for when I can't figure something out.

[@JasonYadlovski]

You’re welcome, that’s great, thanks! I’m happy to hear that my videos are helpful and give you the answers you need. 👍😁

[@jd01665]

Any ideas on how I can export the markers from the media tab at the bottom? I don't want to create timelines for each video and I've maked a bunch of notes on each video already. Wondering if there's a way to just run a script (or make a menu button that will do so) to export a csv of all markers for every video in the media library? Thank you!

[@JasonYadlovski]

Hi! I’m not sure if there’s a way to do a custom export like you’re talking about. With the method in this video be too time-consuming with the way you have your markers set up currently? You should not need a separate timeline for each video, you could put them all in one timeline and export everything together, I think that would work OK.

[@karolciesla2406]

I wonder if there is a way to import them :D For audio recordings, I have same samples, over and over, and I am labelling them like A B C D .. Z, it would be nice to import A B C D ..Z timestamps and then cut my new video and fit these cuts into premade template

[@JasonYadlovski]

You can import the timeline markers, but not clip markers.

[@vipera6067]

I want to do the reverse. I have a CSV with edit index and I want to import it onto a video. Can you please help me?

[@yidongmeng9472]

Is this a Studio only function? Because when I use it with Resolve on my PC it always fails, either it dosen't create file or the file is deleted automatically once created.

[@JasonYadlovski]

You should be able to do it in the free version.

[@3d-illusions]

Wouldn't it be nice if they added an 'export markers as youtube formatted text file'. Then just copy and paste without all the messing about removing the frames.

[@3d-illusions]

Hey @jasonyadlovski I dropped you an email if you want to check your spam. I wrote a tool to do what I was asking for 👍

[@photojoseph]

Thanks for this - I had found how to export the Edit Index, but didn't realize you had to define the Edit Index, first! Now I know how to do this! But I have some improvements for you… Two points… first, the default start time in Resolve is at 1 hour, so you do need to change your timeline to start at 00:00:00:00 for this to work (you had done this, but others may not realize), or all the timestamps will be off by an hour. And second, I have an "easy" way to remove the frames in Numbers (same formula should work in Excel, since that's where I found this!). 1. Delete instead of hiding the other columns… makes this easier to follow. So you should only have columns A (Source In aka timecode) and B (Notes aka chapter names) 2. Insert a new column between columns A and B (right-click on either column header and "Add Column Before" or "After") 3. In the first data cell of Column B (this will be cell B2), type the = symbol to bring up the formula editor, then paste in "LEFT(A2,LEN(A2)−3)" (without the quotes). A2 is the first cell with timecode. This formula basically says to delete the last three characters of this text block, which will remove the last colon and frames numbers. 4. Grab the little yellow dot at the bottom of the cell B2 that has your cleaned-up timecode, and drag to the bottom of your list Now, continue just as you did, coping the cleaned up timestamps and the description to paste into KZbin!

[@JasonYadlovski]

Awesome, thanks for sharing that info! That's really great!

[@JasonYadlovski]

Hey! Funny I saw your comment here! I just looked back at this video cause I forgot how to export the markers, lol. Your formula above worked great, thanks man! I made time stamps w/ markers from my ResolveCon presentation and wanted to export all of them. Thanks man! 😁

[@photojoseph]

HEY @JasonYadlovski I missed your last comment but found your video (and our comments) again because I couldn't find the feature… was wondering if I was losing my mind… but NO… in Resolve 18.6.x, "export > edit index" is missing… aha it's MOVED, to the Edit Index tab, but for some reason it's greyed out on my system. Grrr man it's always something!! (EDIT #3) after going back and forth several times it appeared. No idea what changed. _sigh_

[@jussibuckbee3865]

Hi Jason. Great video, thanks. Not sure if I've found a bug, but here goes. I have several markers on a multi-cam timeline. I type in on the "name" box ex. Cam3, and then add notes. When I open my index window, it shows all the text I've typed in the *notes" column only. "Name" box is empty. Anybody has had similar issues. Cheers. jb

[@JasonYadlovski]

Hi! I haven't run into that issues, but it could be a bug. Thanks for sharing!

[@HoundDogMech]

I realize this QTT is over 2 years old but when I goto my Media Pool and Select the Time line and Right Click (1:55 thru 2:10) Timelines > Export > Edit Index. You show 8 things that can be exported Bottom one is EDIT INDEX. My Studio 18.6.4 Only has 7 catagorues to EXPORT there is no EDIT INDEX amonge them WHY.

[@gaborkiss3109]

How did you put the same markers on the timeline in the SOURCE VIEWER window and in the timeline panel?

[@JasonYadlovski]

Since I just used one viewer, it was a view of the timeline and they just appeared on the bottom there. I didn’t do anything special although there may be a setting for it but off the top of my head I’m not aware of such a setting.

[@gaborkiss3109]

@@JasonYadlovski Oh, I see, thank you! 👍

[@Kernoe]

such a pity there is no way to export a thumbnail of the clip as well like in avid media composer.

[@JasonYadlovski]

You can export the thumbnails, it just doesn’t come with the marker.

[@MrSnackosaurus]

How do you export markers for a non youtube video???

[@JasonYadlovski]

You should be able to do it the way I show in this video, go to your timeline in the media, pool, right click, export, markers to EDL.

[@robertcrain9849]

Is there a way to export these markers as rendered images?

[@JasonYadlovski]

Not that I know of, it will only export as text.

[@DonStrongMusic]

Is there a way to slow the narration down. too fast for me! :D

[@JasonYadlovski]

Sure! You can slow down the playback right on KZbin. 😜 click the gear icon by the progress bar of the video.

[@DonStrongMusic]

@@JasonYadlovski awesome! Thanks, Jason!🤩

[@DonStrongMusic]

@@JasonYadlovski can you also export the color codes on the markers?

[@JasonYadlovski]

Yes, I believe that all the fields can be exported.

[@ElderTrollsGaming]

Hm i've tried this and i only get the rows for the first three markers... nothing else. Have you ever seen that before? EDIT: I manage to get a different result with the play head at the end of the timeline not the beginning. But still doesn't work for CSV, only for TXT..... apparently it makes a difference for some reason.

[@JasonYadlovski]

It usually works ok for me and exports all of the fields....🤔

[@ElderTrollsGaming]

@@JasonYadlovski I gave up on it! it was super strange!

[@Dexter101x]

Surely there must be an automated way to get rid of the frame numbers

[@JasonYadlovski]

I think you can adjust it in your spreadsheet program. 👍

[@MusicAMG]

yea, I made this even easier.. I wrote an app for Windows that does all of this automajically.. ;) you export the csv file from DaVinci, drag that export to my app and my app makes it KZbin friendly.. you can either save it as a txt file, or copy to the clip board and paste into KZbin.. just a few clicks and your done.. Also great for your videos that you didn't upload with markers.. would love to share this app, but, I don't have any resource needed to do that, i.e., web site, etc.. what I could do, is make a video showing it being used and drop a link here, if any interest. (honestly, this should be done natively in DaVinci Resolve, why not, no clue..)

[@JasonYadlovski]

Nice, that's awesome!

[@MusicAMG]

@@JasonYadlovski cool, I'll do a video..

[@BEYONDIMAGES-AI]

You need to re-create this video for Davinci 18. tiny difference. If you haven't already did.

[@JasonYadlovski]

I'll add it to the list....👍

[@fnthm]

In Vegas Pro it takes 2 clicks to export a fragment of the timeline. Can be done in - literally - 5 seconds. I'm watching this video, and it lasts 6 minutes... Can't believe it.

[@JasonYadlovski]

Resolve just takes some getting used to and they keep making it better and better over the years. Give them some time maybe they’ll improve it. Thanks for checking out the video!