Final Cut Pro HD | H•O•T Hands-On Training [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

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Open Seq Markers in the Chapter 05 Lesson project. Then, double-click Track Pink sun to load it into the Viewer.

2.

Move the playhead to 01:02:13:04. Then, with the playhead stopped, press the M key to create a markerthe yellow object that appears beneath the playhead.

The name of the marker appears at the bottom of the Viewer window. This type of marker is called a clip marker because it is located inside a clip.

3.

To change the name of the marker, be sure the playhead is parked on top of it, and press M again. The Edit Marker dialog appears.

4.

Click once in the Name field and change the name of the marker to Skier and Sun, then click OK. See how the new name appears in the Viewer window?

5.

Set another two markers in this clip, one at 01:02:17:00 and the other at 01:02:22:28. (There's no magic in these numbers, so feel free to set your markers anywhere in this clip.)

Notice, when the playhead is on top of a marker, it is colored yellow. The normal color of a clip marker is pink.

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To move between markers, press Option+M to go to the previous marker and Shift+M to go to the next marker. This is a very handy keyboard shortcut which I use a lot. You can also choose Mark > Previous > Marker or Mark > Next > Marker, but there never seems to be enough time to use the menu.

7.

Using the Shift and Option keys, go to the last marker in the clip. To delete a marker, press M and click the Delete button in the Edit Marker dialog or choose Mark > Markers > Delete, or press Cmd+`. (The ` key is immediately above the Tab key.) The playhead must always be positioned on top of a marker to edit or delete it. Delete the second marker, so that there is only one marker in the clipthe first one, which you named Skier and Sun.

Clip markers are very useful when you want to mark, say, the beat of a music clip, or the location of a sound effect or explosion. The best part about using clip markers is that they travel with the clip.

8.

With Seq Markers open in the Timeline and the playhead positioned at the beginning of the sequence, edit the clip Track Pink sun into the Timeline.

9.

Grab the clip and drag it.

Notice that as you move the clip, the marker moves with it. And, the shape of the marker sprouts a long, thin line out the top, allowing you to align the marker more easily with other elements in the Timeline.

10.

Leaving this clip selected, move the playhead so that it is not on the marker and press Option+M or Shift+M.

Just as in the Viewer, the playhead moves to the location of the marker, and the name of the marker shows up in the Canvas, when the Timeline playhead is parked directly on the marker.

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You can also set clip markers in the Timeline. With the clip still selected, move the playhead to a location where there isn't a marker and press M. Again, a new marker appears in the clip at the location of the playhead.

Important note:
In order to set a clip marker, the clip must be selected and the playhead must be at the location you want the marker to appear.

12.

Deselect this clip. Now press Option+M and Shift+M. The playhead doesn't move.

This illustrates the biggest weakness of a clip marker. Unless the clip is selected, the playhead doesn't know where the marker is.

Consequently, although I use clip markers, I don't use them a lotonly to flag the start of a sound or visual effect that I want to remember later. The markers I use all the time are similar to clip markers, but they're located in the Timeline itself. I call them, appropriately, Timeline markers.

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To set a Timeline marker, be sure nothing is selected in the Timeline, then move the playhead to, say, 01:00:04:00 in the Timeline. Press M to set the marker and M again to open the Edit Marker dialog.

You set, edit, delete, and move to a Timeline marker exactly the way you do with a clip marker. The big advantage to using Timeline markers is that you don't have to have a clip selected to be able to move to them.

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Set three more markers, one at 01:00:08:00, 01:00:12:00, and one at the end of the clip, 01:00:15:27. (Again, you can set markers anywherethat's one of their great strengths.) Practice using Shift+M and Option+M to move between markers.

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You can remove one marker, or you can remove all markers, but you can't select and remove a group of markers. To remove all the markers in a clip, double-click the clip to load it into the Viewer, and choose Mark > Markers > Delete All, or press Ctrl+`.

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Chapter 12, "Output Your Project," this marker can be read by iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, or Compressor and turned into a DVD chapter marker. The advantage to setting chapter markers inside Final Cut is that they are frame-accurate, unlike setting chapter markers in the DVD programs themselves.

Add Compression Marker is used as a flag to force Compressor to set an "I" frame at a particular frame to improve the compression of a particularly active transition or scene. In general, I don't use thesethe default GOP settings for Compressor are fine for my work.

Add Scoring Marker adds a special marker that is displayed inside Soundtrack to help you flag particular sections of your video within Soundtrack.

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You can move a marker by positioning the playhead to the right of a marker and place it on the frame you want the marker to move to. Then choose Mark > Markers > Reposition, or press Shift+`, and the marker jumps to the playhead.

While this is cool, sort of, it's not that useful. Markers move only to the right, never to the left. So, if you want to move a marker earlier in the Timeline, open the Edit Marker dialog box and type in the new timecode location for the marker.

21.

Finally, Timeline markers do have one limitation. They don't move when you move clips on the Timeline. For instance, grab the clip Track Red Sun and move it. Notice that the Timeline markers don't move.

Generally, this isn't a big deal. However, there is no way to link a marker on the Timeline to a clip so that if the clip moves, the Timeline marker moves with it.

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That ends this exercise on markers. You don't need to save your work; you won't be coming back to this sequence again.