move all chapter markers at once?

[Alexander Kallas]

Quicker in DVDSP than in FCP, and a check as to your entry points.
As far as moving them all at once in FCP, no.

Cheers
Alexander

[Andreas Kiel]

Hmmm,

Sure you can drag around chapter markers in DVDSP, which is different from FCP and sometimes easier..
But they will only lock on I-Frames (12/15 and it might be slow) and I still do know no method to select several chapter markers in DVDSP at a time. And even if – I don’t know a method to move them all at once. From my point of view it’s even more difficult as you my create a new chapter marker by accident.
But maybe I do not know enough about DVDSP.

Regards
Andreas

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

[Andrew Hamilton]

This thread is about a year old at the time that I’m writing this, and its amazing that Apple has yet to do anything with the marker functionality in Final Cut Pro. Just another area where Avid is more powerful, and I hate to say that because I favor FCP. Nevertheless, my work around is a bit hoakie but it reduces the time of massive marker adjustments one by one, that is adjusting them BACKWARDS on the timeline when some ridiculous producer has asked for a last minute ‘cut’ after you’ve already secured picture lock, which throws all of your markers FORWARD from the point where the first cut takes place. Another disclaimer, this works for about 30-40 marker projects if you have a greater number than that, and you are finding you need to mass adjust them on a regular basis, you probably should just get an AVID, as this technique I use, whereas still tedious, does reduce the time of marker adjustment for me. OK, here goes

On the original sequence (where the markers are placed correctly) I select all (apple-A) where all clips on my sequence are selected. With ‘snap’ on, for the playhead, I start at the first marker and create a new marker on the clip (m) the clip MUST be selected or it will just put another marker on the sequence itself which we don’t want. Then using my customized Apple shortcut (my shortcut is ‘shift+ right arrow) to jump to next marker, where I hit ‘m’ again to put another corresponding marker on the clip, I jump to each next marker, quickly putting a corresponding marker on the clip itself each time until every sequence marker now has a corresponding marker on the clip.

I duplicate the sequence make my annoying “after the fact” edits (that are usually due to some producer’s failure to plan or decision-making on the fly-but thats a different thread) and now I’ve got a “properly” edited sequence with jacked up sequence markers all down the line starting from where the first edit took place.

Now, I deselect all clips (apple+A again) and I select “Delete all markers” from the mark – markers – pull down menu. (or the shortcut ^ ‘ ) Because all clips are deselected, this will only delete all of your jacked sequence markers but the markers you put on the clip(s) will be left intact.

Starting at the first clip marker (using snap on the playhead for frame accuracy), Proceed from marker to marker on the clip(s) and hit ‘m’ which, when no clip is selected, will put a marker on the timeline/sequence that will correspond to where you had them in the original sequence. It STILL is a tedious practice but I find that I can jump through an entire sequence with 30+ markers fairly quickly.

An important thing to note is, to utilize the “next marker” shortcut jumping from marker to marker on your clips, you must select all, and then deselect all when you create your timeline/sequence marker. Otherwise the jump to next marker shortcut will only jump to the next marker on your timeline (which you would have deleted already using this system) and not to the next marker on your clips.

There it is. It might sound like a lot of work but using the shortcuts, its about 3 keystrokes, marker, 3 keystrokes, marker on down the line.

Hopefully, I’m not too late with this pure GENIUS, and all people in this thread have not died of old age. If you have, you’re probably in a better place where you’re editing with software whose developers still care about pro apps and haven’t moved on to cell phone technology.

Love
Andrew

Las Vegas Video Production
Hamilton International Productions
https://www.hiproductions.com

[Benjamin Petric]

I think the best way to move a Chapter marker in FCP is to position your playhead in your timeline exactly where your Chapter marker used to be copy its timecode then locate the chapter marker that you wanna place in that specific location,make sure that your marker is Highlighted and then hold down OPTION++M key and the marker’s window will pop up .In The Start box paste your new timecode and click OK.

Hope this will help!

[Thomas Cramer]

I think I found an elegant and easy way to move markers on a time line.Here is a simple scenario.

I have edited an entire project including chapter markers etc. Then I had to delete part of the opening sequence. I am now left with a gap at the beginning and would like to move not only the clip but also the chapter markers to the left (my new starting point 1:00:00;00). This is what I did:

I filled the gap (the amount of space I would like to move the markers to the left) with a slug (any long clip that fits will do). And then I simple pressed ripple delete (the smaller delete button, not the bigger which is just a lift delete and leaves a gap)

Voila!

Hope this helps,
Thomas

[Andrew Mellows]

Hi Thomas,

Your solution is great and it really works. I have spent so many hours moving multiple chapter markers to the left after having to remove something from the start of the time line.

To clarify the process, all you need to do is highlight all tracks of audio and video for the exact time that needs to be removed. Then right click (or equivalent) on the highlighted content and left click on Ripple Delete. The chapter markers will move with the content.

Thank you!
Andrew