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Markers and Jumping Playheads!
I’m working on a sequence in Premiere Pro CC 7.2.2 (MacPro 5,1, OS 10.9) and need to trim out some of what the speaker is saying – one person standing in front of a white screen, medium shot, just talking off the cuff, pretty repetitious. So what I wanted to do is add markers to some of the things I find have been said elsewhere, so I can better see which section to cut out. I’m basically trying to use the markers as a hi-lighter on the clip.
So to label these section of my clip, I double click the clip in the timeline to load it in the source monitor, then looking at the audio waveform, find the section I want. I put my playhead where I want the marker to start, hit “M” on the keyboard, and voila, I have my marker. But of course it’s just marking that one particular frame.
So I double click the marker to pull up the marker dialogue box, hover over the timecode next to “Duration” and just move it down a bit. Of course this isn’t the entire section that I’m trying to label, so I then play the clip to where I want to end the label.
Leaving my playhead there, I grab the “out” side of the marker, and begin dragging towards the point I where I want the label to end. Now this is where things get weird… My playhead begins bouncing all over the place and then stops back at the actual “IN” point of the clip – not the marker’s beginning even, and I lose where I’m trying to end the marker. The only way this does not happen is when I completely zoom out in the Source monitor, but the waveform is so squished I can’t tell where the marker’s out should be placed.
Any Ideas or thoughts?
Thanks!
-Grant Gomm
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Ok, I feel dumb. I figured it out. In case anyone else finds they have this same problem, here’s what I found worked for me. Instead of trying to grab hold of actual marker half and moving that around, I grabbed the white vertical line on the waveform and moved that where I wanted it to go – easypeasy.
-Grant Gomm
https://www.grantgomm.com
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