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title: Chapters
description: Review guidelines for inserting timecodes for Chapter Breaks. These will be used by ad-supported platforms.
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# Chapters
## Review guidelines for inserting timecodes for Chapter Breaks. These will be used by ad-supported platforms.
### Overview
- Chapters are recommended and only apply to the Main Video (not to trailers or other videos). These are just timestamps and should ***not*** be in the Main Video file.
- No Chapters in the first or last 5 minutes. After the first Chapter, each subsequent Chapter must be every 8-12 minutes. Your first Chapter break can be at any point after 5 minutes.
- Chapter 1 always starts at timecode 00:00:00:00.
- For titles less than 20 minutes, only 2 Chapters are allowed.
- For titles less than 10 minutes, no Chapter is allowed.
- All time codes must be frame-accurate.
- Frames in the time codes must match the video's frame rate or you will not be able to submit. For example, entering "27" as FF for a 24 fps video is invalid.
### How to Enter
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- In the Video section, scroll down to **Chapters**.
- Each Chapter has three fields:
- Name - name of the chapter.
- Time - timecode of the start point of the chapter. It's also the time location where the advertisement break is inserted. Must be frame-accurate.
- Thumbnail Time (optional): timecode of the thumbnail. The frame at this exact time location is used as the thumbnail image for this chapter on some streaming services.
- Enter "00:00:00:00" as the first one, click the "Add" button to create the next.
### 💡Tips
- It is best to place a Chapter after a scene's end or before a major lighting change.
- Try to avoid placing ad breaks in the middle of a monologue, dialogue, or action sequence.
- It is best to find scene changes with black frames in between. If not available, use the timecode of the first frame of the next scene/shot.
- Use the Filmhub video player to identify the best spots - we ONLY support Chrome browser for this at the moment:
- Go to the beginning of the time range where you want your next ad break to be
- Play the video, find a scene change, extended transition, or clean cut. Use the Left or Right arrows on your keyboard to jump 10 secs back or forward if needed.
- Once you find the spot, pause a few seconds right before it, and use "." key on your keyboard to step frame forward until you get to the very first frame of the next scene/shot, enter the timecode displayed on the left of the progress bar.
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