Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 470)

Aligning Items in the Timeline by Their Markers
You can move a clip item in the Timeline by dragging one of its markers. When you do
this with snapping turned on, the marker becomes the clip item’s snap point. So while
you’re dragging a clip item by one of its markers, its In and Out points won’t snap to
anything. This allows you to quickly align markers in sequence clips to one another, or
to markers in your sequence.
For example, suppose you have a sequence that contains a shot of a person dropping a
glass and an audio clip of jarring music. You can easily align these elements to a specific
point in your sequence by adding markers at the relevant points in your sequence clips,
and then dragging each sequence clip by the marker with snapping turned on.
To align markers in sequence clip items to a sequence marker
1 Add markers to important frames of individual video and audio clip items in your sequence.
2 Add a marker to the place in your sequence where you want to align your clip items.
3 Make sure snapping is turned on by doing one of the following:
• Click the Snapping button in the Timeline.
• Press N.
Add a sequence marker
for aligning the
sequence clip items.
Add a marker to the
video clip item.
Snapping button
Add markers to the
audio clip items.
4 Drag the video clip item by its marker until it snaps to the sequence marker.
5 Drag the audio clip item by its marker until it snaps to the sequence marker.
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