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Markers disappear after Match Frame
I’m working in FCP 6 on a project where we’re adding a large number of markers to our subclips.
Today I was reorganizing our project and noticed that when I copied sequences over into a smaller, fresh FCP project, and then tried to Match Frame the clips, the source clips that would appear would be marker-free even while the markers were still visible in the timeline.
I next tried to make a duplicate project of the original, deleting all of the unwanted bins and sequences except for my target sequence. This maintained the cut sequence’s relationship to the markers in the source subclips – but if I tried moving a sequence out of a bin and into the project master directory, the markers would then disappear once more.
Does anybody have an idea how to resolve this problem? The project is a documentary in a foreign language, and we’re relying on marker notes for subtitling purposes, meaning that if we can’t refer back to the marker notes the project will become very difficult to edit moving forward.
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4 Replies
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Did you add markers to the master clips or just to timelines?
You can also make your markers in to subclips and transfer that way.
You can also take the XML route but I think that destroys master clip relationships. I’d also like to see the marker text show up in FCP ‘find’ searches.
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These aren’t sequence markers, but markers placed in subclips and then strung out into sequences. The red triangles are all there in the sequence, but under certain circumstances when I match-frame, the revealed source subclip will not have them.
When I first noticed this, my work-around was to take my original subclip or master clip with markers, and make a new subclip. After that point the match-frame relationship would work, but today my discovery was that if I copied the sequence to a new bin, or moved it out of a bin into the project, things got screwy.
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And you are adding these markers to the subclip when loaded in the viewer from the browser or are you adding the markers to the clip in the timeline (not on the sequence, but the clip itself that’s in the sequence)?
If you are reorganzing you can always duplicate your project, save that as the archive and keep working in your original project.
Jeremy
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All markers are being made to the subclip in the viewer from the browser.
I duplicated my project so I still have the previous version, but I’m going to need to move forward eventually because right now it’s not letting me copy the sequences or move clips from one sequence to another without breaking the link to the marker date.
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