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Marker Shortcut?
Hello all,
I was wondering if there is any way to do this: I have a long clip with many markers on it. I know that I can drag the markers straight from the browser into the timeline, but this makes them independent clips. I also know that I can turn the markers into subclips, but I generally try to avoid working with subclips. What I wish I were able to do is to drag a clip into the timeline and only have the marked sections get added to the timeline. I know I can go through and do it one at a time, but is there a way to do this for ALL the markers at once? I am pretty sure there isn’t, but thought I might ask. On the same note, I wish there was like a key I could hold down when dragging the markers from the browser to the timeline that would not make them independent clips named “Marker 3 from…” but I’m pretty sure this doesn’t exist either, since I have tried the common key combinations.
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“What I wish I were able to do is to drag a clip into the timeline and only have the marked sections get added to the timeline.”
When you place your first marker on a clip in the Viewer window, move your playhead down a little and press Option + ~ to make an extended marker (maybe it’s Command + ~). This basically is like making subclips though, and you can drag all the extended markers into your timeline.
“On the same note, I wish there was like a key I could hold down when dragging the markers from the browser to the timeline that would not make them independent clips named “Marker 3 from…” but I’m pretty sure this doesn’t exist either, since I have tried the common key combinations.”
If you’re giving your in and outs of extended markers (or subclips) enough heads and tails, then you shouldn’t really need them to be independent clips. But if you’re editing and find you need one to be an independent clips, place the playhead over the clip and press F. This loads the original clip into the viewer with corresponding in and out points. you can then overwrite the extended marker or subclip.
I don’t know if these were EXACTLY the answers you were looking for, but I think this helps
Rob Grauert, Jr.
http://www.robgrauert.com
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Hey Rob,
Thanks for the response. I know about extending the markers, and what I am saying is that I wish I could drag these extended markers into the timeline and have them not be called “Marker 3 from…”, but rather just add those sections from the master clip. If you do F, it match frames to the original media, but not your actual marked up master clip…now with FCP 7 you can do “match frame to subclip parent” and this works on markers as well…but there is not keyboard shortcut for it that I know of, so kind of an inconvenience. The reason I wish there was another solution that didn’t treat the markers as these weird subclips/independent clips, is the FCP manual does not recommend dragging markers from the browser into the timeline for media management reasons…if they don’t recommend it, why would they give you the option and not make it make more sense how it treats the markers? Its dumb.
Best,
EliEli Mavros
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Command + Option + F i think will match the marker to the master clip if plain ol’ F doesn’t.
Rob Grauert, Jr.
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[Eli Mavros] “.but there is not keyboard shortcut for it that I know of, so kind of an inconvenience.”
You can easily make one. Hit command-j to being up the button list. Type Subclip in the search bubble and select the parameter you want. The hit a key command that you would like to assign to it.
Jeremy
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That’s true Jeremy, good point. I know it is stupid, but I generally try not to mod my keyboard layout, cuz I work on so many different machines at so many different companies…though I should start carrying my own button and keyboard layouts around with me on a usb stick.
Despite this, I still wish there were a way to drag the markers from the browser straight into the timeline without it creating new master clips. It would just be so much faster to get my selects into the timeline and not have to match frame the ones I use later. Oh well, guess I should submit a feature request.
Best,
EliEli Mavros
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