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thebigjay
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February 8, 2017
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WHERE IS THE EXPLANATION OF WHAT THE VARIOUS MARKERS MEAN IN AUDITION?

  • February 8, 2017
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Please don't send me a million responses about the ridiculously unhelpful article "Markers in Audition" which does not ACTUALLY help me understand the different marker types. What I am looking for specifically is the abbreviations found within each type. For example, if I select Cart Timer marker type it gives me choices of various 3 letter choices in a drop down from the name "Marker 1" I need to know what these mean. I have searched rather diligently and found no useful general information about what these things are.

Is there a real manual with actual explanations?

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    Paul Hastings
    Paul Hastings
    Participant
    May 20, 2024

    @thebigjay thank you for asking this question! I've spent the last 10 minutes googling trying to understand what EOD, SEG, AUD, MRK, SEC, TER, etc. meant. Posting this reply right now so other people can finally find this thread when searching for those keywords.

     

    The "Working with Markers" article from Adobe was not helpful.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 8, 2017

    It's nothing directly to do with Audition - these are generic cart chunk abbreviations. Strictly speaking, we can't refer you directly to any information about this, as it's contained in an AES standard and you have to purchase those. Fortunately for you, there's a website with the original proposals on it, and I believe that these were pretty much ratified.

    http://www.cartchunk.org/cc_spec.htm

    ryclark
    ryclark
    Participating Frequently
    February 8, 2017

    Section 3.2 of the above link gives table of what the basic marker types are. But to fully understand them you need to have had past knowledge of how analogue Cart machines worked in the Broadcasting environment. So unless you are involved in providing audio files for use in a broadcast automation system (in which case you should know what they mean) then you needn't worry about what they are really meant to do.

    Some reference to the meanings of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary cues in the Tape Format section of this Wiki.

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