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Creating markers

Creating markers

Markers are a way for you to create notes for yourself or if you work in a team to make notes for other people on your team, so you know where things are happening. We saw this earlier in the training series in the beginning when we did this Hansel and Petal ad and I put these little comp markers here. That's what these are in the Work Area bar here, and you could put notes on them if you want, or you could just have the marker there if you'd like, and they indicate certain things like the "Filigree Core & Stem Start Here," and the "Stem Tips Start Here." So they are marked in time, so I know later on that this is what's happening at that particular time. Now there's actually two different types of markers: there are markers for the layer, and there are markers for the entire composition. Now we'll talk about why you'd want both in just a moment. When I go back over to this Clip05- tahoe clip, and this is a very long clip. If we click here in the Project panel to see this clip, this…

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