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Using markers for organization - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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Using markers for organization

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As you're editing, you're always going to be making notes. Things you need to do, concepts you need to communicate, or items you need to check. In that regard, it's really nice to make notes right in your project, and right on the shot, and right on the frame that corresponds to your notes. And you do this with markers. I'm going to go into my 5.1 bin and load my marker sequence. Now you can place a marker anywhere within your sequence or attach to any of your source clips. Let's start with timeline markers. To add a marker, you simply move your cursor where you want to put a note. So I'm going to go to the first time that we see Vince on screen here. And I want to remind myself that I need to create a lower third title for him. I'm not going to do it now. I just want to make myself a reminder. So without any of the clips selected in my sequence, I press M and a timeline marker is added. If I would have had a clip selected in my sequence, notice that it gets added to the actual clip itself, alright? So let me undo that, and I'm going to go back to my timeline marker. If I double-click on it, this is where I can add my notes. I'm just going to title it Add Lower Third, and if I want, I can put in some more comments, I can change the color, lots of things I can change in this, but for right now, I'll just say OK. But if I ever need to amend any of the information in there, it's as simple as just double-clicking and opening this dialog box. I'm going to come downstream to about a minute 43. And I can do that by just clicking here in this timestamp and typing 14300, Enter. And I have these shots here of Vince working with this farmhand. I want to make sure that we have the talent release for this worker. So this time I'm going to place a marker and instead of just pressing M and then double clicking, if I know I need to go right in and make some notes, I can just press MM, and it opens right up into my marker dialog box. Here, I'm gonna type in rights check, and then under comments, I'll say check talent release. And before I press okay, I just wanna point out a few things. Right now, we're making comment markers, which is the default type, just adding notes. Other types of markers you can create are chapter markers, segmentation markers, web links, and flash cue points. To learn more about these marker types, you can check out the course Premiere Pro Guru Markers for much more information on that. Also up here, I have the ability to add a duration to my marker, which of course makes it a bit easier to see in the timeline, but it can also represent an event that takes place over a certain number of frames. So in this case, since we actually have several shots in a row of this worker, I can add a duration of it so that the marker goes across all of these shots. To add a duration, I can type in here, or this is just a value shuttle, I can click and drag to the right. And when I say OK, you can see that the marker does, in fact, have a duration. And I can extend that as needed. By the way, if you need to add a duration to a marker that's already in the timeline, you can just Option-Drag or Alt-Drag on a PC. Right now, both of my markers are green. If I want to color code them, I certainly can. I can just double-click here and change the color. Let's say that all of my title markers are teal, OK? When you right-click on a marker, you get a pretty extensive marker menu, and this is also available up here under Markers. And this one actually also comes with keyboard shortcuts. So things like Go to Next Marker, Go to Previous Marker, Shift-M and Shift-Command-M or Shift-Control-M on a PC could be useful. Shift-M will go forward through the timeline, and Shift-Command-M will go backwards. But probably the easiest way to see and access all of the markers in your sequence is to open up the Marker window, which should be here as a tab by the project panel. And if I go to this double-sided arrow, you can see Markers. Again, if that's not there, you can come up to Window and just make sure that Markers has a checkmark next to it. But as you can see, all of your markers are listed with a poster frame and timecode information and this text field for comments. Also, if you click on each of these marker events, it pops to that point in the timeline, which is really handy. By the way, this text field doesn't just display the text. can also type right in here as well. Other handy tools, this is a search field. So right now I only have two markers, but say I had 200. If I wanted to pull up all of my rights check markers, I could do that. And also this is a filter as well. Imagine we had 200 markers and we wanted to display just our title markers. I could click on my teal color and just those are displayed. Finally, I just want to say one more thing and that's that you can also add markers to your source clips. I'm going to go back to my 5.1 bin and I'm gonna load this clip right here. Now this source clip is just over a minute and a half long but imagine it's an hour and a half long. What I like to do is listen to my interview and whenever I find a sound byte that I really like I place a marker. So I'm just gonna play over this first section and I'll show you how to do it. I'm actually gonna display my markers window as I do so. But when you're on the land and you're farming Your life is full. All right. I'm going to place a marker there, and I'll add a duration. And you can come down here and just paraphrase what he's saying, or you can actually use your transcript window and copy and paste if you like as well. But again, use this as a metaphor. Let's say I like that soundbite, and I come in, and I like one right here as well. And then I really like one right here. And so I give that a different color, and you get the idea. So a lot of time when I'm done listening to my interviews, I have lots of markers indicating all of my best sound bytes. By the way, if we come down to your sequence, you'll see that this marker that I added is here in the timeline. And that's because I'm showing clip markers. If you don't see this, just go to this wrench and make sure that show clip markers is checked. Okay, if it's not checked, it won't show up. But with show clip markers checked, you'll be able to see all of your source clip markers. All right, so those are markers. Very handy little digital Post-it notes that allow you to communicate to yourself or to others about anything in your project.

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