Markers stopped working out of nowhere

[Jeremy Garchow]

99, I believe?

[Matt Callac]

I’m in FCP7…so I can’t say for sure…but I just put 150 markers on a clip as a test. Is it simply not allowing you anymore markers on that clip? or no more markers on any clip?
-mattyc

[Jeremy Garchow]

FCP5 was 99 per project, if I remember correctly. FCP7 has a brand new marker structure.

Jeremy

[Chris Guevarra]

Thanks for your quick responses everyone.

For some reason, I don’t think that if there is limit or not, that it applies to this situation. The reason being that I can’t even delete or edit (change position, edit marker title and comment, etc.) only to this one clip. I can add, delete, and edit markers on all the other clips on this project.

I even did a test where I created a new project and copied the clip over and I still can alter any makers. So I think I isolated the problem to just that one clip.

Are there any clip settings that involve markers that maybe I’m not aware of?

Thanks,
Chris Guevarra
seekingasianfemale.com
massmovementtv.blogspot.com

[Chris Guevarra]

Oh, and I’m mostly talking about note markers btw.

Thanks,
Chris Guevarra
seekingasianfemale.com
massmovementtv.blogspot.com

[Matt Callac]

If it’s not a terribly long clip just go to the head of the clip hit “X” to mark the clip then “F” to match frame and then “F11” to do a replace edit. Now you’ll have the same clip without the markers. See if you can add/edit/delete markers on the clip now.
if the clip is super long and you have other markers on it that you want to keep…just use the blade tool to cut the clip after the markers you want to keep and then do the same process i meantioned above on the cut you created.
-mattyc

[Chris Guevarra]

Thanks for the reply Matt. Sorry about the late response. That’s actually a really great solution to the problem. However, we just started getting this problem on another clip and this clip has lots of markers already. Is there anything we can do to prevent this again from happening in the future?

We think we may be narrowing down the problem though. We noticed that the last clip had a single blue line around the border of the viewer that appeared after the moment FCP stopped allowing us to mark. The editor said that she was typing quickly and might have accidentally hit a hot key that may have locked the clips from further markers.

Does anyone know if there are any hotkeys or marker/clip settings that prevent the editor from marking a clip? Maybe something sort of like the “CAPS LOCK” key function?

Thanks,
Chris Guevarra
seekingasianfemale.com
massmovementtv.blogspot.com

[Lars Fuchs]

I’m having a similar problem with a 34’34” DV/NTSC clip. After 49 markers I can add no more. I can’t delete or modify from the viewer using the marker keyboard shortcuts. I CAN however delete and rename in the browser. I can also access the marker dialog by context-clicking in the browser and choosing edit.

I reached 49 markers about 21 minutes into the clip. I tried subclipping the remainder of the clip and adding markers to that to no avail. I also tried copy-pasting the clip to a new project, also without success. What did work is reimporting the source clip. In the new clip I can add markers whereever I want. I was able to add well north of 49 (after 75 I stopped trying).

So there’s a workaround, but its weird.

This is using FCP 7.0.3 under OSX 10.6.8 on an octocore with 10Gb Ram.