Markers in clips on the timeline in Smoke

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In Final Cut I’m used to constantly adding markers to individual clips in the timeline rather than markers to the timeline as a whole, like to mark beats or bars in an audio clip which might get moved around. If you add cue marks to a clip on the desk in Smoke, then edit it into the timeline, the marks get transfered into great big annoying timeline markers, which are useless once you slip or slide the clip about.

Is there any way to make the cue marks stick to the clip they came from? You can’t seem to add the marks to sync groups, sadly. For now I just put cuts in, and make the whole chopped up clip into a sync group so it doesn’t come apart, but that’s a bit clumsy.

Any ideas?

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Ah crap, it would help if I read the manual… shift + right control adds marks to just the current layer.

Still though, is there a way to make marks added on the desk become layer marks instead of timeline marks?

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Hm, it appears you can add layer marks to clips on the desk, but they don’t show up in the scrub bar or timesmear. They transfer to the timeline fine though.

I guess that sorts me out… you may return to your regularly scheduled activities 🙂

[Anonymous]

hi,

probably you found this already …
you could switch to source timeline, which will show you the track marks

ciao
robert

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