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I´m a self confessed marker fetishist.

Press M to set marker.
Press M a second time to label marker.
Press tab to enter comment.
Press tab 3 times and enter to close marker dialogue.

So what you going to do when you´ve got lots of angles of the same action. For example 9 angles!
You´re going to set markers for the first angle and then copy them into the other angles, right?
Wrong! You can´t copy markers in FCP.

Time for some reverse engineering!

It is possible to copy content from one clip into another.

So the logic broken down is set the markers for one clip, name and describe as required.

Then make a copy of this clip with all those lovely markers and then paste the content of another angle from the same scene into the copy of the clip with the markers!

So once again. The object of the exercise is to paste the content from the unmarked clip into the marked clip. Because we can´t copy markers in FCP. That simple!

Here it is step for step.

A.) UNMARKED CLIP

Select the unmarked clip.
Open in viewer with double click.
Overwrite into an empty timeline.
Press MEDIA START key, to jump to beginning.
Press COMAND A and then COMAND C to copy clip.
i.e. we´re simply copying all attributes of the clip.
including incidentally content!

B.) CLIP WITH MARKERS

Select the clip with those lovely markers.
Open in viewer with a double click.
Overwrite into timeline.
Press ALT and V to paste attributes.
select VIDEO and AUDIO CONTENT and click OK.
COMAND 9 and rename clip and drag back into Browser.

There will be a little arrow to the left of the clip in the browser indicating that it contains markers.
It´s then possible to navigate through the clip as usual.

shift and M to jump to next marker
Alt and M to jump to previous marker

Or whilst in the browser, you can even click on that arrow to the left of you´re now marked clip to reveal the individual markers as a list.

Having done this it´s possible to click on the marker and drag it into the viewer.
Thus opening the section of the clip from the dragged marker to the next marker!

Repeat the process for the different angles of the same scene.

I am fortunately working with clips with the same length which come with the Film School in a Box which I have now received! (see previous post)

work around inspired by a thread over at the LAFCPUG forum. Thanks guys.

http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?1,160647,160899#msg-160899

There´s no shortage of technical training out there for FCP. Much of the training is designed to get you up to speed with FCP. Telling you which buttons to press to get what results.

There is however another way.

Learning by doing.

Buy a hard drive with enough raw material for a feature film on it.
And edit!

Because each scene was shot with several cameras the material is organized so that it´s possible to edit using the multi camera function in FCP!

Depending on which version you buy you can have either 6 or 9 cameras per scene!

They are offering price reductions until the end of December 2006.

http://filmschoolinabox.net/index.html

This gets really interesting when several people edit the same film/material.
The people over at FSB are trying to get a community up and running with a view to being able to compare notes.

You Tube Community link

http://www.youtube.com/groups_layout?name=filmschoolinabox

I´ve ordered my version for Xmass and am looking forward to digging in!

Oh, and don´t forget to check out the required minimum specifications.
Paul