From the course: Final Cut Pro X 10.6 Essential Training

Marking clips - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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Marking clips

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- [Instructor] Now before we begin to trim our clips, it might be advantageous for us to leave some notes in the timeline to identify some problem parts in our edit. And I'm here in my chapter five keyword collection in my projects events. I'm going to move over the fourth clip in my timeline. You can always navigate there with your up and down arrow keys. And I'm going to play back this section of clips by pressing the L key to play forward. We'll play through four clips. - Susan! - Joe Oh Joe, hi there! - Can't believe I ran into you here. Can't believe I ran into you here. - Please, please sit yeah. - Please sit. [Instructor] So we've got some obvious problems, we've got repeated action taking place in each of the shots. We also have a little bit of an audio problem here on the first shot I played back where the audio is peaking. You can see here by the red icon here, this is letting you know that the audio was going above 0 DB. So let's actually move over that part first. I'm going to just click and move over the section and then just press Command Equal to zoom in. I like to leave a marker, just a note here to lower the audio in this section. So, we're to create a marker on this clip, so with me over this clip, I'm going to press the M key. I want you to notice that a marker is created. I can actually double-click this marker, and I now have the option to name it, so I'm going to say, "lower volume." Now this is the default marker, but we should note that we can actually change its type to a to-do marker. So, I'll press Done to accept that marker's creation. And I'm just going to move, or play a little bit further. So, I'm just going to play from this point on. - Oh, Joe. Joe. - [Narrator] And I'm just going to leave a note to get rid of the repeated "Joe" that happens on this second clip here. Me over this point here in the timeline, I'll press M to add a marker, and I'll actually press Command+Z to undo that, just to show you that Option+M allows us to add a marker but also open up the dialog box. Draw your attention to the Mark menu that was flashing when I pressed that. And that is where you'll be able to find your Marker keyboard shortcuts for Add a Marker or Add a Marker and Modify. In this dialog box I'll say, "Remove top of clip," and I'll also make this a To-Do Marker. I'll press Done. Just to zoom out so I can have an overview of my whole entire Final Cut Pro timeline I'll press Shift+Z where I can now see those two markers that I've created. And, I want to draw your attention back to the timeline index that we explored in the last movie of the last chapter. If I click on here and head to the Tags section, those two markers that I've created show up here in that list and I can move between them. Just a really fluent way of moving between those markers and getting a sense for notes that I've entered here on my Final Cut Pro X timeline. So, there's how you create a marker with the M key and then, of course, pressing M again to modify it. Or, you can do that in one step by pressing Option+M. So, get a good sense for how your markers work in Final Cut Pro X by exploring, or using the Timeline Index in conjunction with the markers we just added. And, we'll explore in the next movie how we can perform now some trimming operations with markers in place.

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