Modifying Markers in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is CJ South representing expertvillage.com, in this clip I’m going to teach you about modifying your markers settings. Now let’s modify your markers, okay so let’s say you have a couple of markers, alright markers great, now what if you want to change them? Now remember in the canvas they’re given a name marker 7, this one’s marker 6, the other one is marker 5, what if you want to change that name? Well when you’re over an existing marker just hit the M key again and the editor comes up, now when the editor up here at the top you can name your marker so let’s say this is building brown start, you can name it whatever you want and put little comments under it, I spelled building wrong, there we go too bad they don’t have a spell checker in this program, comment now a comment is just actually you know whatever you want this won’t be displayed it’s just a comment that’ll come up when you bring the editor back up and then to delete it you can just hit this delete key, boom it deletes it. So now a really cool feature is the add chapter marker, okay now if you’re going to export this to like a DVD program as such as a DVD studio pro you can add chapter marker and it now has become a chapter marker so when you go to export this into DVD studio pro when you bring it in you’ll then have markers already laid up in your timeline, it’s a really nice added feature and you can do the same thing for scoring if you add a scoring mark that will work in sound track and then a compression mark will work in a compressor. So there’s different ways to manage it, you can also change the duration of a marker depending on you know what exactly you want to mark, like if you just want to mark a like a ten second area of something and then you can just change this to ten seconds it’ll mark that for you and that will displayed by a line going through down here in the timeline to that point and you can snap to the edge of that point, so instead of just marking a single point you can mark a selection or a time frame."