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Add Markers list from Screenflow to Youtube Table of Contents

Published May 4, 2020 by in Youtube, Screenflow at https://rmoff.net/2020/05/04/add-markers-list-from-screenflow-to-youtube-table-of-contents/

Screenflow has a useful Markers feature for adding notes to the timeline.

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You can use these to helpfully add a table of contents to your Youtube video, but unfortunately Screenflow doesn’t have the option to export them directly. Instead, use the free Subler program as an intermediary (download it from here).

  1. Export from Screenflow with a chapters track

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  2. Open the file in Subler and export to text file

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From there, tidy up the text file from the source

CHAPTER03=00:07:17.565
CHAPTER03NAME=Updating documents in Elasticsearch
CHAPTER05=00:11:38.664
CHAPTER05NAME=Deleting documents in Elasticsearch with the sink connector
CHAPTER07=00:16:14.897
CHAPTER07NAME=Schemas and Elasticsearch Document Mappings
CHAPTER08=00:25:57.397

into a time / label list for Youtube:

You can do this manually, or with a bit of RegEx in something like VSCode

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^CHAPTER\d*=(.*)\.\d\d\d$\n.*=(.*)$
$1 $2
00:07:17 Updating documents in Elasticsearch
00:11:38 Deleting documents in Elasticsearch with the sink connector
00:16:14 Schemas and Elasticsearch Document Mappings

Now paste this list of times into your Youtube video description

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When someone views your video they can then click on these times directly

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Oh…and don’t forget to subscribe to my Youtube channel :)


Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt works on the DevRel team at Confluent. He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.

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