markers in multiclip

Hello to all,

Working with FCP 6.0.3 How do you work with Markers in a multiclip? When I put a marker on my multiclip in the timeline, the clip in the browser does not notate the marker i.e.; all of the markers in the timeline are not listed in the browser.

I have a 4-camera shoot, documentary. I need to mark the different topics being discussed. How do I make a list of what the the subjects are saying? We don't have transcripts.

Thoughts?

As always, thanks in advance!
Peace,
Lisha

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I think I found the answer, but if anyone has a work around or if something has changed since this article was written, please chime in.

I really need to be able to see the title of each Marker so I can go to the topic quickly in my timeline.

Thanks again! Lisha

Markers added to clips in your timeline won't show up back in the Browser until you physically drag a new version of the clip instance back to the Browser-- I would suggest dragging to a different, Marked Clips bin for these.

Then you should be able to disclose all the Markers you've added to the clip. This is a good way to mark a camera reel capture for editing. Once you've created the link back to your Browser, you can treat this instance as your new master clip, edit from it and Match Frame back to it, and more important for you, since you name each marker by topic, you'll see them all listed in the Browser clip disclosed list.

Note, as Nick Meyers reminds, that you can't match back to the original Master from whence this came-- and if you've performed any editing from that original master before Timeline mark-up, sequence media management may be problematic.

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the sad news is that the only one way to get effective markers in multiclips,
is to add them to the clips BEFORE you make them into multis.

keeping the clips in a timeline just to have markers on them is a bit lame,
but it will work, of course.

if at all possible i would try to add the markers to your original clips and make the multis again.

if you wanted to be really thorough, you would add the markers to ALL 4 angles,
but that's something you would want to automate somehow.


nick

"the sad news is that the only one way to get effective markers in multiclips,
is to add them to the clips BEFORE you make them into multis."

This is OUTRAGEOUS!!!

I just noticed that none of my multiclip markers that I made yesterday exist today.

I go back and forth between Avid and FCP from job to job and am fine with it. Either one usually works for me. But yes, this is making me wish so much that this feature doc I'm working on, which is based on a four camera shoot, was being cut on an Avid.

Marking clips, multicam or not, is such a simple and extraordinarliy common thing that we editors rely on everyday. I'm just flabbergasted.

I also always been annoyed that there's only one color of marker. No one else seems to care much, but I use different colors all the time in Avid.

Garret

Let's add it to the list for the next version!

Lisha

"This is OUTRAGEOUS!!!"

"Let's add it to the list for the next version!"

agreed and agreed!

Its a big feature request Garrett. Let us hope it gets implemented. Send feedback to Apple. They do listen. We got Steve Bayes there reading all the feedback and feature requests.

Michael Horton
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