Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 238)

238 Part V Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
 Scoring marker: These markers are used for marking important visual cues to sync
music to. They are visible when you open an exported QuickTime movie in
Soundtrack. A scoring marker is distinguished by the text <SCORING> appearing in
the Comment field of its Edit Marker window.
When you export a QuickTime movie with markers, some types of markers appear as
chapters in the Chapter pop-up menu in QuickTime Player. You can select a chapter to
jump to a specific part of your QuickTime movie.
Working With Markers
You can create markers, add comments to them, and delete them at any point while
you edit. You can also change the duration of markers.
Viewing Markers in the Viewer or Canvas
Marker icons appear in the scrubber bar, as well as in overlays over the video image
whenever the playhead is positioned at a marker. For more information, see “
Viewer
Basics ” on page 79. You can also refer to “ Canvas Basics ” on page 91.
Viewing Markers in the Browser
When you add a marker to a clip that you’ve opened from the Browser, that marker is
displayed in the Browser in list view.
To view a clip’s markers in the Browser:
m Click the disclosure triangle next to a clip containing markers.
Clip markers are displayed hierarchically within the clip. You can change the name of a
marker in the Browser, and you can also create subclips from markers. For more
information about working with subclips, see Chapter 19, “
Creating Subclips ,” on
page 251.
Adding Markers in Clips and Sequences
You can add markers, name them, and attach comments to them. Both the name and
the comments appear as overlays in the Viewer, Canvas, or Timeline whenever the
frame containing the marker is displayed. You can also specify the kind of marker to
add—notes (default), chapter, compression, or scoring. Audio peak and long frame
markers can only be added by using the Mark Audio Peaks and Mark Long Frames
commands, respectively. For details, see “
Types of Markers ” on page 237.
Markers can be set while a clip or sequence is playing or while the playhead is stopped.
There is also no limit to the number of markers you can use in a clip or sequence.