Apple Final Cut Express 4 - Manual (Page 264)

264 Part V Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
Working with Markers
You can create markers, add comments to them, and delete them at any point while
you edit. You can also change the duration of markers.
Viewing Markers in the Viewer or Canvas
Marker icons appear in the scrubber bar, as well as in overlays over the video image
whenever the playhead is positioned at a marker. For more information, see Chapter 6,
“
Viewer Basics ,” on page 79 and Chapter 7, “ Canvas Basics ,” on page 93.
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:
m 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 20, “
Creating Subclips ,” on
page 277.
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 263.
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 Express 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 270.