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Problems w Markers in Merged Clips
Markers are a vital part of my work flow. I know it’s a known issue that marker descriptions disappear in merged clips. As I understand it, the work-around is to use the markers in the source clip, then merge the clip w audio, and the marker info should follow.
Now I have a brand new problem. Yes, the marker description did follow, but there are now 9 instances of each marker in the merged clip. I deleted the duplicate 8, but they reappeared.
Is my problem unique, or has this happened to anyone else?
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I get a bunch of duplicate markers, too.
Markers in merged clips also don’t show up in search results, which I find more annoying. So, if I search for a marker, the original clip shows up if I retained it, then I have to go open up its equivalent merged clip.
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I have had exactly the same problem you describe. Duplicate markers in merged clips and loss of marker data. I spent about an hour speaking to an Adobe customer support representative and after we did a screen share, updated CUDA drivers and all sorts of other, seemingly unrelated hurdle jumping, he told me that markers are not supported within merged clips. This revelation did not come at the onset of our conversation but at the end, just as he was about to escalate the case. My sense is that the marker system is on the half-baked side or, since merged clips were a somewhat recent addition, somehow fundamentally incompatible with merged clips, thus requiring a significant rewrite of the software.
I explained as firmly as I could that using markers within merged clips represents, what I consider, a very typical work flow. The rep tried to explain that I could add markers to clips prior to merging them. I told him this wasn’t sufficient and he then said I was free to post a feature request to the Adobe site.
So, in short and according to Adobe themselves, markers don’t work with merged clips. That leaves me searching for an alternative workflow when editing interviews shot dual system.
iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16 2GB
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I wish I new this before synchronizing hundreds of hours of dailies!!! 🙁
I don’t know hom I’m going to manage my project now as unsynched dailies have rough sound and can’t be used properly in a Timeline.Wouldn’t it have something to do with Premiere Pro allowance to write on the project or sth ?
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I really tried about everything I could including reasoning with the Adobe rep but it just seems to boil down to the fact that there is no current solution for making markers work with merged clips. Some folks were suggesting using something like Pluraleyes to sync things up. My understanding is that this creates a new clip that includes the synced audio and behaves properly with Premiere’s markers.
iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16 2GB
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