Simple ChapterTool XML file generator
This is a very simple, very quick and dirty form that I've put together that will generate an XML file that you can copy and paste into an ascii text file and save for use in generating a chapter enabled podcast. I've started using it to generate the chapters for the K9Cast podcast that I cohost and I figured that other podcasters may also find it useful. There are bigger plans in store for this though, so stay tuned!
Instructions:
- Read the ChapterTool wiki before proceeding to understand what the limitations and system requirements are. This tool only does PART of the work of creating chapters in podcasts. Its not fully automated... yet!
- The first object must always start at 00:00
- Enter time as HH:MM:SS or MM:SS. For maximum precisicion, HH:MM:SS.FF (Thanks Cristofer!)
- You must specify a time for every object. Objects with no time specified will be ignored by this script.
- Special characters like " & / \ %gt; %lt; will probably cause the ChatperTool utility to error out. Will fix this later.
- An object with a title is considered to be a chapter
- Objects without titles are considered to be part of the previous chapter object
- Objects can have any combination of having or not having titles, pictures or links.
- A picture will stay on screen until you specify another picture
- A link will stay on screen until you specify an object that has no link or you specify an object with a different link
- Limited to 60 objects for now. I generated this table using an autofill hack in Excel but later I'll add javascript to make this prettier and expandable. For more then 60 objects you could potentially do the first 60 and then rerun it with the next 60 and then splice the two XML files together.
- There is no validation of data going on here, so, garbage in, gargbage out! Again plan on adding this later.
- If you know of any other similar tools then please add a link to them in the wiki!
- Now fill out the form, hit submit and then copy and paste the resulting file into an ascii text file, as mentioned before, and then follow the instructions posted at the ChapterTool wiki to finish the job.