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Clip marker cs6 problems, logging & workflow
I’m just now learning about the crippled marker functionality in CS6, which seems to have fallen back pretty badly from 5.5. FYI I’ve made a feature request at Adobe, I know about the hidden KB shortcuts, etc. However my issue is not about synchronization, it’s about being able to mark and reference content for editing, most notably dialogue in various takes. Without this, it seems to make anything documentary-like a real headache.
I have a multicam edit, and with this inability to navigate, view or edit notes in clip markers in a timeline, I’m drawing a blank on how to log & mark footage and have it actually be at all useful in the edit. The markers are useless to me if I have to load clips in a source monitor to navigate markers, because the edits are happening in the parent sequence, and the timeline doesn’t follow the CTI in the source monitor. (repeatedly re-ganging monitors is a clunky way to deal with this.)
Anyway I discovered this sad reality after several hours of logging… and now I can’t do a thing with any of the markers or notes, can’t copy them out of clips, can’t navigate them in a timeline — Ouch — appears I wasted a good deal of time.
So I’ve pretty much learned by reading several forums that Adobe has no known plans to fix this, and all we can do is request the features — so I’m not looking to beat that dead horse. I’ve moved on to try to figure out a workaround or change my workflow if there’s an alternative. Has anyone got a suggestion for how to log & mark effectively in Premiere Pro CS6 so that you can navigate/view clips’ shots and bites in a timeline? As it is now, I create a multicam sequence for each take, sync it up, and then put these sequences inside another sequence where I do the multi-cam edit in addition to cutting the takes together.
Learning. Always.
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I’ve noticed that, too.
It’s a program with such great potential but whenever I start considering doing anything “real world” in long form and I say to myself, “OK! THIS is the project I will do all in Premiere!” I find myself stymied by these sorts of dead ends that make me wonder if the designers are really paying attention at all to feature-length project editors who work with large amounts of footage.
Not being able to export markers reliably in Premiere is also a big negative for me. The Prelude integration could be so much more, and I hope it tightens up in the next release. My latest huge frustration was the separation between clip label colors and timeline label colors, which — sorry to sound harsh — is just dumb design, I don’t care what anyone says.
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I know you will have probably sorted it by now by now, but is this any good for you? for some reason adobe left the feature idle with no assigned key to activate it.
in keyboard shortcuts –> timeline panel –> “add clip marker” I give it the same after effects ” * ” hotkey for consistency.
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I’m not sure if you’re dealing with this problem anymore or not, but I found a work-around. I exported my Premiere Pro sequence as an XML to Final Cut Pro 7. Then I used:
Choose File > Export > Markers List as Text
to create a text document. I opened the text document in Excel and all of the clip names, marker names, comments, timecode and color metadata was separated into columns.
Happy cutting!
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