Marker comments won’t show up on video

[Tom Wolsky]

Text applied to markers on the timeline ruler appear in the canvas. Text applied to markers attached to clips only appear on the clip when it’s opened in the viewer.

All the best,

Tom

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Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Qi heng Huang]

The problem is markers on timeline are not showing texts on the canvas.

Thanks,

Qi

[Nick Meyers]

go to the 3rd small pulldown menu at the top of the canvas,
make sure “Show Overlays” is switched on.

nick

[George Mandl]

I have this same problem for audio only clips in the viewer. It seems that FCP will show me the marker overlay in the viewer only if there is picture, but not for an aiff file (which is really unhelpful when you’re trying to mark up some ADR). Can anyone confirm or deny my suspicion?

Thanks!

[Tom Wolsky]

Confirm. There is no text display over the waveform in audio. Did you make a feature request in feedback?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[George Mandl]

Thanks, Tom. I’ll feed this back to the source.

[Don Burton]

I’m having a different issue regarding Comments in FCP 7.0. Unlike in prior versions, only the first two lines of a comment are showing in the viewer overlay. It used to be that a longer comment even up to 15 lines or so would show as an overlay. Is there a way to see the entire comment or have they taken this a function away in FCP 7.0? Thank you for any feedback!

Thanks! – Don

[Tom Wolsky]

Asked and answered in another thread.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Stephen Deline]

Hi all –

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I’m having the exact same problem that Don is referring to, above, and after scouring the cow I can’t for the life of me find the thread Tom’s referring to where this question is addressed.

To be clear, here’s my issue: I recently transitioned into FC7 a FC4.5 project (longform doc) that is chock full of important logging information in the clip marker comments (long chunks of text). It used to be that when I hopped from marker to marker in the viewer, the marker overlay displayed all of the text that had been entered into each marker’s comment field. Now, FC7 is truncating the marker comments at five lines (when viewed in the viewer overlay). Is there any way to change this?

If someone has an answer or, Tom, if you wouldn’t mind pointing me to the thread that addresses this issue, I’d appreciate it greatly! Thanks!

Steve