# Video Chapters not appearing in DevonThink

**URL:** <https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365>\
**Category:** DEVONthink\
**Created:** [April 3, 2022, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365 "2022-04-03T18:42:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 15\
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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/21 "2022-08-08T16:04:18Z")

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I posted a video with chapters here: [Video Chapters not appearing in DevonThink - #5 by sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/5)

Here’s the behavior when I import in into DT 3.8.5. As you can see clicking on a previously selected chapter doesn’t take it to the chapter start.

> **[CleanShot 2022-08-08 at 12.02.39](https://share.cleanshot.com/oHRjp6)**
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> Video file

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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/22 "2022-08-08T16:06:02Z")

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Support for navigating to Chapter locations for Youtube too would be super cool 🙂 but for now I need it for local videos

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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/23 "2022-08-08T16:11:57Z")

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It would be really really awesome if DT allowed new Chapters to be added to the video at the current play position. Much cleaner and portable than Annotations linking to a frame. My current workflow is to open the file in a tool that adds a new Chapter. DT does great picking up the change immediately but it requires me to navigate to the desired position in the external too to add the chapter. If DT could do this it would be so much nicer.

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/24 "2022-08-08T16:18:43Z")

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No such plans right now as it’s the only request ever but maybe some day.

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**Author:** ![lerone](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/lerone/32/6146_2.png) [@lerone](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/lerone)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/25 "2022-08-09T08:49:20Z")

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> [@sjivan](#):
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> It would be really really awesome if DT allowed new Chapters to be added to the video at the current play position. Much cleaner and portable than Annotations linking to a frame.

just to note, with the current more general turn this discussion is taking, it is really fusing w/ my parallel insertion in another thread – actually prompted by @sjivan more specific initial question:

> [@Video + timeline related information – in DT, the wider file ecosystem & in knowledge work in general](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-timeline-related-information-in-dt-the-wider-file-ecosystem-in-knowledge-work-in-general/72235):
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> hey DT´lers & community, I just stumbled across Sanjiv´s question about video chapters and their display in the sidepane TOC. as I am myself interested in video chapters for knowledge management, and was intrigued some time ago by DTs fabulous function to create reference links to frames in the timeline of videos, I am now wondering a) how does all this go together? b) is there some comprehensive documentation and/or description of scenarios of working with timed video markers / annotations …

maybe they can be fused. otherwise just to leave a trace, for everyone interested in the general aspects of this.  
obviously I support @sjivan general impulse here. though I am myself not sure I would trade ‘chapters’ against (timebased) annotations. but I feel all this just expresses the need to find some generalized / shared / documented approach for this, as the issue / affordance of video references is by now very fundamental in all modern (transmediated) research!

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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/26 "2022-08-09T13:11:30Z")

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I don’t think a lot of users are aware of this cool new feature that was recently added where native video Chapters appear in the Table of Contents. I’m optimistic if a poll is taken about wanting a feature to add native chapters to a video from the Table Of Contents view a lot of users would want it 🙂

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/27 "2022-08-09T14:48:52Z")

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> My current workflow is to open the file in a tool that adds a new Chapter.

What _tool_?

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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/28 "2022-08-09T15:59:06Z")

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Doesn’t look like my previous video attachment is playing. Here is the link again

[https://share.cleanshot.com/9JaF7b](https://share.cleanshot.com/9JaF7b)

The tool is mChapters.

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**Author:** ![lerone](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/lerone/32/6146_2.png) [@lerone](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/lerone)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/29 "2022-08-09T17:38:41Z")

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yeah, that is an interesting one.

there is (for Macs) btw also: [MetaDoctor](https://starwaresoftware.com/) and [ChapterWork SX](http://www.einsteinslegacy.com/products/chapterWork.html). the latter of which which seems most interesting because it claims (or seems to) to allow chapterization that is also compatible with YouTube and Vimeo uploads… just to mention.

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**Author:** ![cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cgrunenberg/32/7172_2.png) [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/30 "2022-08-10T16:02:14Z")

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> [@sjivan](#):
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> Now if a few seconds have elapsed and I want to get back to the previously selected chapter location, clicking it again does nothing.

The next release will support this too.

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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/31 "2022-08-11T12:29:40Z")

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Great, thanks!

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**Author:** ![lerone](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/lerone/32/6146_2.png) [@lerone](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/lerone)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 9:23am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/32 "2022-09-02T09:23:22Z")

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just to add:  
in my own tests, the results in the TOC from YouTube-Online video are also erratic, as @Bluefrog has mentioned here. but sometimes I do find the right chapter-titles in the TOC – just ‘burrried’ with these other links, as Bluefrog has shown.

It would be great though, if at some point there are resources to tap into this, and get _‘clean’ chapters as TOCs_. and – as it is already text information – also make this _searchable_, or otherwise usable.  
The same goes for _vimeo_ – which in some respects is the more ‘serious’ source for such chapterized videos (if, obviously not as huge a pool as YouTube).

So, just to encourage keeping this on the radar, as there are more and more use cases, and surely now chapters are a more elemental part of YT-search, vimeo added chapters etc. the potential and availability of such online video chapters will only grow and grow.

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**Author:** ![sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@sjivan](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/sjivan)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/33 "2022-09-24T16:29:10Z")

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Confirmed this is now working with the latest release. Thanks!

Now if only ability to add chapters to the current location in the video is supported I was be doing backflips with happiness 🙂

I hope you consider it.

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**Author:** ![AW2307](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8c91f0/32.png) [@AW2307](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/AW2307)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/34 "2022-09-24T22:37:19Z")

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Thanks for posting the update here. I was not aware that navigating via chapter marker had become available and can confirm it works great.

I really appreciate this feature @cgrunenberg @BLUEFROG!

For my needs it would add a lot of value if the chapter bookmarks were also indexed as part of the video item’s contents. So then search criteria such as “_Content matches bookmark X_” would find the video item.

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**Author:** ![system](https://devontech-discourse.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/original/2X/4/4e6ff70c96be2eb307a274d890bba8d71ba671b3.png) [@system](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/video-chapters-not-appearing-in-devonthink/70365/35 "2025-09-23T22:38:17Z")

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