Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 401)

66 Part I Organizing Footage and Preparing to Edit
To move a marker in a sequence by entering a new timecode value:
1 In the Timeline or Canvas, move the playhead to the marker.
2 Do one of the following:
 Press M.
 Click the Add Marker button.
 Choose Mark > Markers > Edit.
3 In the Edit Marker dialog, enter a new start time in the Start field, then click OK.
Aligning Items in the Timeline by Their Markers
You can move a clip item in the Timeline by dragging one of its markers. When you do
this with snapping turned on, the marker becomes the clip item’s snap point. So while
you’re dragging a clip item by one of its markers, its In and Out points won’t snap to
anything. This allows you to quickly align markers in sequence clips to each other, or to
markers in your sequence.
For example, suppose you have a sequence that contains a shot of a person dropping a
glass and an audio clip of jarring music. You can easily align these elements to a specific
point in your sequence by adding markers at the relevant points in your sequence clips,
and then dragging each sequence clip by the marker with snapping turned on.
To align markers in sequence clip items to a sequence marker:
1 Add markers to important frames of individual video and audio clip items in
your sequence.
2 Add a marker to the place in your sequence where you want to align your clip items.
3 Make sure snapping is enabled by doing one of the following:
 Click the Snapping button in the Timeline.
 Press N.
Add a sequence marker
for aligning the
sequence clip items.
Add a marker to the
video clip item.
Add markers to the
audio clip items.
Snapping button