Overlay went from Canvas to Viewer???

[Todd Beabout]

move the clip from the viewer to your timeline. I think somehow you were putting markers on the clip that is in your viewer.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[David Bogie]

Todd’s probably correct, easy to check. Sequence markers appear in the timeline, toward the top of the display. Clip markers appear in the clip itself and you can see them in the Viewer and in the copy of the clip that is in the timeline.

You are probably in for many frustrating hours of more copying and pasting. That’s how I learned about markers, too.

I will suggest, however, that depending upon markers to hold notes or production hints is not a good idea. Use them for chapters and sync hits. JMHO

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Eric Klassen]

Thanks for the suggestions…
I tried moving the clip from the viewer to the timeline and there was no change. Still getting the clip marker info alone in the viewer and only the video and audio info in the Canvas. Any other suggestions on getting the clip marker info to go onto the Canvas?

About markers, yea, this has been a really long and tedious process. Any other suggestions for how to most efficiently create a dvd screener with all the scene/take/timecode slate information and a paper log broken down to reference each take? I’m working with green screen footage where we have about 150 takes with very slight changes, but important to note, and it’s basically impossible to keep track of it all unless this marker/text overlay/paper log is done. I can’t think of another way to do it.

[Bret Williams]

Make sure you create chapter markers if you need them for DVD. Or you’ll have another headache.

Sounds like you had a clip selected when you made your markers. Clip markers (what you don’t want) don’t appear in the canvas. You want sequence markers. Make sure you don’t have anything selected when you create a marker. If you happened to have the clip open or ganged in the viewer, and you create clip markers, then yeah, you’d see them in the viewer.

[David Bogie]

>t’s basically impossible to keep track of it all unless this marker/text overlay/paper log is done. I can’t think of another way to do it.< Simply not true. Paper, pencil, stickies, still photos, voice/over calls on the takes, heads and tails slates

[Eric Klassen]

bogiesan,

Thanks for your thoughts, and thanks for jumping up and down for my best interests ; )

I’ve been told by Avid users that a kind of template for slate information exists in that program, so I’m thinking maybe there’s a plug-in for FCP, or perhaps there’s a process here that I’m just not aware of. Here’s my situation, and if you have a better way of doing this, please direct me to the nearest exit as you have already begun to do. I am setting markers to get to each take on a reel. On each marker, I describe the take. Doing an hour tape, there’s quite a lot of these. Now, to get that information into a log sheet (from a batch list export), those markers need to be on the clip rather than the sequence, so that’s where I start. Then, in order to create a dvd with chapter markers, I need to re-create those markers on the sequence so they will import correctly into DVDSP. Now, if that isn’t already too tedious and inefficient, I have to go back and create a text layer to describe each take so the person watching the DVD has a note to refer to if they are not referring back to the DVD menu for which take is being viewed (I’ve tried doing a subtitle import for this from the batch list but I can’t get it to work). So perhaps this last step has a solution, but it seems so not right to have to type all this information over and over.

I am in charge of developing a system for our company that instructs employees in how to develop screeners in an efficient and timely manner. So far, I haven’t come close.

Thanks for your time, thoughts and guidance.
eric