Marker placed at top of timeline not on clips

[Andy Neil]

[Paul Figgiani] “In FCP 7, how would you designate the difference between a Sequence marker and a Clip marker? If I remember correctly you need to either click the timeline Ruler or select a Sequence clip.”

In FCP 7, markers defaulted to the timeline ruler. The only way to place a clip marker was to physically select the clip first.

In FCPX, there doesn’t seem to be a consistent default state for markers. It changes depending on whether you’re playing through a clip or scrubbing through it, and even those states aren’t consistently one way or another. This necessitates the user having to select a clip before hand to ensure their markers end up in the right place (if that’s important to them).

[Paul Figgiani] “Point is I don’t see why making sure the Adjustment Layer is selected would be that big of a deal. Not saying it’s the most elegant solution. but it works.”

It isn’t a big deal. I was pointing out for the OP or anyone else who wanted to use this method what they had to make sure to do if they wanted the markers to consistently belong to the adjustment layer.

Andy

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