How to get Markers in Hybrid MP4's/ Hybrid MOV's to show in Final Cut Pro

When a friend of mine, who uses Davinci Resolve, records his gameplay he marks his file as he records so when he puts it in his editing software and it shows up on the track. I've tried to do the same for FCP but it the markers don't show up on the timeline. I tried exporting the meta data and converting it to an XML file to then import into FCP and wasn't able to get it to work.


Does anyone have any solutions to this? Is there a way to get the markers to show up on the timeline with third party software? Or is this something that I need to hope that Apple will maybe add in 20 years? Thank you anyone who can help/has info.

Mac mini, macOS 15.6

Posted on Oct 13, 2025 9:46 PM

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Posted on Oct 16, 2025 5:08 PM

Claude and I created a *very* simple python script that extracts the chapters from the OBS hybrid mov, then creates an fcpxml of the chapters as titles. Python script There's not a ton of error checking so no warranty if it breaks something. I tested it with your test file and it appears to work with the 3 chapters that are in there.


It requires ffmpeg to be installed, which also includes ffprobe. ffprobe is used to extract the chapter data as well as the OBS hybrid mov details like frame rate.


Once you download it, you can put it on your desktop along with your OBS hybrid mov. Open a Terminal window and type:

$ cd ~/Desktop

then run it with:

$ python script.py your-obs-hybrid.mov


It will output a v1.11 fcpxml that has a project with the OBS chapters as 3 second titles. The titles can be copied and pasted above your OBS hybrid mov to show where the chapter markers would be. There's an optional --title-duration numberOfSeconds, so if you don't like 3 second titles you could change that with:

$python script.py --title-duration 5 your-obs-hybrid.mov


Here's the python script in case the link expires but I'm not sure if copying from here will retain the spaces properly, which is important because python indentations are part of the syntax.



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How to get Markers in Hybrid MP4's/ Hybrid MOV's to show in Final Cut Pro

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