How do you add a marker on the video in the sequence?

[John Pale]

Here are the chapters in the Final Cut Pro manual you need to read.

Vol 1 (Interface, Setup and Input) page 70 Saving Custom Layouts
Vol 2 (Editing) Page 53 Using Markers

If you dont have the books, the manual is available in the Help Menu and is easily searchable. It took me less than a minute to find this stuff.

You are right, this is no Avid. Thats why you need to read the manual.

[Indyplayer]

you might as well explain to me how to do it.
It doesn’t help anyone for you to waste your time telling me to look in the manual.
what kinda smart ass answer, I hope the next time you ask a question, the response is, ah, look in the manual.

[Shane Ross]

Why should he spend lots of time typing what is laid out very well in the manual…on the pages he referred you to? All you have to do is go to that pages and it is laid out for you, step by step.

I think it was a VERY helpful answer. He told you where to find exactly what you are looking for. His answer was by no means “smart ass.” He didn’t send you packing by saying “look it up in the manual.” He gave you the pages to find the answer.

[indyplayer] “you might as well explain to me how to do it.”

Why? Sorry, but are you too lazy to use the help menu (which is just a PDF of the manual) and go to those pages?

Shane

Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[John Pale]

Thanks for watching my back Shane.

[Indyplayer]

Sorry John,
Thanks for the answer, I am just frustrated, and was looking on the PDF.
the info you gave is correct thanks,
I just long for an AVID.

[John Pale]

Apology accepted.
I work on Avid all the time, so I know full well there are some things it does better…I am no FCP zealot, but I think if you take the time to learn it you may find FCP has much to offer and is better in some areas, too.
Good luck.

[Tom Wolsky]

What areas are they John? I don’t ask in an argumentative way, I don’t know enough about Avid, but I’m curious what you might see as being areas of functionality that it does better than Avid.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD

[Mark Raudonis]

[John Pale] “It took me less than a minute to find this stuff.”

Amazing what happens when you type a keyword into the help window.
A prerequisite for posting on this forum should be, “Did you check the ‘help’ file?
The results are certainly faster and often more accurate that what you get here.

Mark

[John Pale]

Tom,
Unbelievably strong media managment would be at the top of the list.
It was built from the ground up as an offline tool, and its pretty damn near bulletproof in this respect. This may not be important to everyone, but in a large broadcast workflow, with multiple projects going on simultaneously, you cant just throw storage at it and work at online resolution.

There are many small things about capture (entering clip info during capture), trimming and multicam that work more elegantly in Avid. In general editing, track targeting handles everything…whereas FCP has auto-select, which seems to confuse many people. In Avid you can copy/paste individual keyframes. In more recent versions of Avid, the Color Corrector’s curves pane is great (though it lacks secondary Color Correction except in Symphony). Overall, the Avid interface is more mature and has had the input of many editors over the years. Its age is its greatest strength and weakness.

FCP’s non-modal interface style is superior (no silly Avid Segment Mode)…The Avid effect mode is ludicrously clunky and non-intuitive, especially to people switching from other systems.

I’d have to give this a lot of thought to do an in depth comparison …this is what I could come up with off the top of my head. I do realize some of this a bit subjective.

[Tom Wolsky]

Thanks.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD