Move and delete markers – Adobe Premiere Elements 8 User Manual
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You can insert markers while a movie or clip plays. Just click the Set Unnumbered Marker icon in the Monitor panel,
or press the asterisk key, at the locations you want to mark.
The marker becomes visible in the time ruler of the Timeline, at the location of the current-time indicator.
Insert comments, chapter information, or URL links in a timeline marker
In addition to indicating important frames of a movie, timeline markers can also contain comments, chapter numbers,
or URLs. You can include comments, chapter numbers, or web links only in timeline markers, not clip markers.
If you intend to import your movie into Adobe® Encore®, you can use timeline markers to specify chapter links. Encore
automatically converts timeline markers with text or numbers in the Chapter field to chapter points. It also places the
contents of the Comment field into the Description field of the chapter point.
If your movie is intended for the web and you are comfortable designing frame-based web pages, you can use timeline
markers to change what appears in other parts of the web page. Timeline markers can specify a URL and web-page
frame. When you include the movie in a frame-based web page, the browser displays each specified link in the specified
frame. So, as the movie plays, your web page can change as each marker is reached. For example, in a family web page,
as your vacation movie plays, you can populate the other frames of the web page with commentary and still images
about the vacation. This advanced technique requires careful planning to coordinate the frames and content. You must
export the movie using a file type that supports web markers: QuickTime or Windows Media.
You can set the markers to be longer than one frame in duration. In the Timeline, the right side of a timeline marker’s
icon extends to indicate its duration.
1 In the time ruler in the Timeline, double-click a timeline marker to open the Marker dialog box.
2 Do any of the following:
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To create a comment, type a message in the Comments field.
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To change the duration of the marker, drag the duration value or click the value to select it, type a new value, and
press Enter.
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To create a chapter point for Adobe Encore, enter the chapter name or number in the Chapter box.
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To create a web link, enter the web address and frame number in the URL and Frame Target boxes. The frame
number must match a frame in the web page containing the movie.
3 To enter comments or specify options for other timeline markers, click Previous or Next.
4 Repeat steps 1-3 until you are finished modifying timeline markers, and click OK.
More Help topics
Move and delete markers
You can drag markers in the Timeline. To change the clip markers in a clip already in the movie, open that particular
instance of the clip in the Preview window and make changes there. You can’t manipulate clip markers in the Timeline
directly.
Timeline markers are not attached in any way to the frames they mark. When you insert a clip, for example, the existing
timeline markers do not shift, but remain in the time ruler where originally placed. However, clip markers within a
clip shift with the clip.