Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 460)

Adding Markers in Clips and Sequences
You can add markers, name them, and attach comments and colors to them. The marker
names, comments, and colors appear as overlays in the Viewer, Canvas, or Timeline
whenever the frame containing the marker is displayed. You can also add further
functionality to a marker by specifying the kind of marker it is, such as a chapter marker,
compression marker, or scoring marker. 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.”
Markers can be set (and modified) while a clip or sequence is playing or while the playhead
is stopped. The number of markers you can use in a clip or sequence is limited only by
the number of frames in the 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
“Modifying Markers.”
Quickly Adding Markers
If you want to quickly add markers to clips or sequences, and you don’t care about the
names, you can follow these instructions. By default, Note markers are created and each
is automatically named by Final Cut Pro. If you prefer to add all of the information for a
marker when you create the marker, see
“Adding Markers with Detailed Information.”
To quickly add a marker to a clip in the Viewer
1 Open the clip in the Viewer.
2 Play the clip or sequence.
3 When the playhead reaches the point you want to mark, do one of the following:
• Choose Mark > Markers > Add, or press the Grave Accent (`) key.
• Press M.
• Click the Add Marker button.
Add Marker button
• Press Shift-1 through Shift-8 to create markers with different colors. See “Marker Colors”
for more information.
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