Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Final Cut Pro - Quick Tip #1

You know how useful markers are in the timeline - giving you the ability to jump between areas of a sequence like chapters in a DVD (and also useful for making those DVD chapters)? This is only one application of the marker.

Especially when working with a long clip of voiceover, using markers can be helpful for making quick subclips...without specifically making subclips. As well as creating the markers, they can be quickly renamed or simply numbered to match the
block numbers in scripts.

You can use the markers in the browser just like subclips, moving them directly down into the timeline as a pretrimmed clip. Each marker's length is equal to the input of that marker to the in point of the next marker.

Next time you are working with long clips think about using markers. It will organize your work and is very quick!


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