Viewing markers in the browser, Adding markers in clips and sequences – Apple Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual

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Chapter 4

Using Markers

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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:

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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 2, “

Creating Subclips

,” on page 35.

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 55.

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.

By default, Final Cut Pro creates a Note marker. The first marker you add is named
Marker 1, the second Marker 2, and so on. The default names indicate the order in
which you’ve added them to a clip, not the chronological order in which they appear in
a clip or sequence. You can rename markers to indicate the location they mark. For
more information, see “

Renaming Markers, Adding Comments, and Changing the Kind

of Marker

” on page 64.

Markers within a clip

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