Track level markers?

farss wrote on 4/25/2004, 2:58 AM
Just a thought, in my current project they'd be mighty useful, mainly on the audio side of things. Maybe others could think of other uses for them, maybe the idea has been raised before or even maybe they're already there and I'm too dumb to know about them.

Kind of raises another question, apart from Vegas projects what media types support markers. Anyway to embed markets into a video or audio file of any flavour?

I've never made much use of markers, only used them to define chapter points when I'm outputing to DVD but now they are becoming a very useful tool, I'm kind of surprised they don't feature more prominently. What I'm sort of looking for at the track level are markers that are locked to the media not the project. The way I can see this being useful is where you may have multiple dialogue tracks or maybe even multicam stuff.

Like I say, maybe just a "Grazie" moment going on in my brain, maybe a dead useless idea, maybe impossible, so feel free to bounce it around.

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Cheesehole wrote on 4/25/2004, 3:44 AM
Kind of raises another question, apart from Vegas projects what media types support markers. Anyway to embed markets into a video or audio file of any flavour?

When you go render as... see the checkbox that says "Save project markers in media file"? That will embed the markers into whatever you save to. Most formats will allow you to save the markers in them somehow (WMV, MP3, AVI...) sometimes it writes a separate marker file. Either way, if you import the media file onto your time line, the markers will show up in the event. (Options Menu has setting for that)

farss wrote on 4/25/2004, 4:28 AM
OK, did a bit more research, well looked in Help. Pretty close to what I need. Only downside I could see is that the event level markers are either all off or on. Was hoping I could turn them on or off on a track basis or else have them display above the individual tracks else it'll get very cluttered.
Still I know what I'm looking for is a solution to a pretty uncommon task. Learned one thing though, need to spend more time reading the Help and experimenting. Wish I could get a few jobs with the same set of problems. I enjoy the challenge but I'm fast becoming a jack of all trades and that's only in this trade which isn't the only thing I do. Shooting weddings is starting to look attractive (no offense to those who do by the way).