Using clip markers in Multitrack - new in V23.3

You may have noticed in the notes for the new release that you can now add and manipulate markers in clips, and jolly fine that is. There are a couple of points to note about this though - and one slight gotcha if you aren't careful...

So you think 'yes I'm going to add a clip marker' and there it is on your clip, able to be manipulated and named. But beware - that's not quite what happens. Your marker wasn't actually added to the clip at all, but to the original file that the clip was taken from; tacked onto the end in a hidden list like they always are.

So if you reopen your freshly-markered file in Waveform view, there they all are. Now, if you don't, by any chance, open the file again in Waveform view or look for any asterisks by the names, you're going to get a question when you try to save or close the session - a question that quite often you say 'no' to, because you don't think you've changed anything about the original files. But if you say 'no' after adding markers to them in Multitrack, then you are going to lose them all if you don't save the files again.

To be fair, it's always been like this with markers and files, but now they are also available in an additional workspace - without any explanation of how this works - it's a trap you could easily fall into.

Just sayin'...