YouTube Chapters | How to do YouTube Timestamps | Fixing Problems with YouTube Chapters

[@DigiSparqMedia]

Couple more pointers I forgot to mention - each 'chapter' must be 10 seconds minimum and you must have at least 3 chapters! Let me know if you've come across any new or different 'rules' that might help someone out! xx

[@DigiSparqMedia]

Also, just been trying to help a content creator out and we came across this little nugget for setting out your numbers (hope it'll help someone else too!) - m:ss - [Chapter Content] for video lengths shorter than 10 minutes mm:ss - [Chapter Content] for video lengths between 10 and 59 minutes hh:mm:ss - [Chapter Content] for videos longer than 1 hour

[@TheButlerNZ]

Missing chapters... doing everything right... have you had a warning over copyright music? I lost my chapters for 3 months because... well KZbin removes them from your entire channel if ONE video gets flagged.. (I used a 70'S TV theme (Space1999)... You get them back automatically. BONUS.... soooo you can actually do the chapters a completely different way eg kzbin.info/www/bejne/kH-QkJWcnJhrrMU where my format is... (and excuse the links to random points in this video...) Peak Flow: (0:00) www.trailforks.com/trails/peak-flow/ Three Brothers Pt3: (05:46) www.trailforks.com/trails/three-brothers-part-3/ Smokin': (07:44) www.trailforks.com/trails/smokin-20917/ Bottom of Comms Connector: (16:05) Starfish - Comms Connector intersection: (17:25) www.trailforks.com/trails/starfish/ Now note... not only are the time stamps AT THE END...and in brackets... I also added links between the timestamps without killing the link process Also the colon (:) after the chapter heading is IGNORED and i think, superfluous. (hey I spelled that right... I always thought they were saying super filious... not 'soo per flue us' (unnecessary)) Something also worth mentioning... I'm fairly sure the stamps MUST BE in sequential order (oh and I think 00:00 is also acceptable), You should also make sure there are NO OTHER TIMESTAMPS IN YOUR DESCRIPTION.

[@DigiSparqMedia]

love your alternative way of laying out the timestamps, really makes the description flow nicer! Thanks so much for the info and heads up on the copyright issue - that could be the cause of a lot of creator's issues. x

[@TheButlerNZ]

@@DigiSparqMedia I actually had 2 warnings (i did a mis-heard lyrics video as well..) What gets me is the song rights system came back almost instantly as ok to use without monetisation (which I don't do anyway) but they still ruin all your other video chapters for 3 month because... uh.. yeah not really sure.. probably spite? The misheard Lyrics was the last, in late October.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpOnfYOrbpema5Y so my chapters came back late Jan (tho I didn't notice till now)

[@thelazyproductive5750]

Did everything, still not having the chapters appearing in the player :(

[@DigiSparqMedia]

Strange, I had a quick look and nothing immediately jumped out at me - your timestamps are all in chronological order and longer than 10 seconds (which seems to be the major issue for most people) and you start with the 0:00 so that's all good too. It may be that it will start working on it's own as sometimes it has been known to take a while and also there's a note from KZbin: Note: Not all videos are eligible for automatic chapters, and not all eligible videos will have automatic chapters. If the channel has any active strikes, or if the content may be inappropriate to some viewers, the video chapters feature won't be available. More info at: support.google.com/youtube/answer/9884579?hl=en Hope this helps and good luck! xx

[@duc_one]

your chapters work from my perspective, how did you solve that or did it work automatically after a while. Im having the same issue right now :(

[@thelazyproductive5750]

Just worked after a while

[@TTVmeatmanlovesyou]

cant get it to work

[@DigiSparqMedia]

Just had a quick look and your set up looks fine, no typos or timing errors. KZbin still allows people to click the time and go to the correct location so I would give it a couple of days and check back again as sometimes it takes a while to update the underneath section. Good luck! x