Green Marker inside clip (how to remove?)

[BrockPlaysFortnite]

Hello, I am not sure what I pressed but now these green markers have appeared inside my clip and I was wondering 1) how to remove them and 2) what are they for?

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

You hit the M key while the clip was selected. Which created a Marker. If ... without moving the playhead ... you'd hit the M key a second time, the Marker's dialog box would have popped up, where you can name them or make a note in the description area. Set a color, so you can have markers for various purposes or people.

A marker is a ... mark. To tell you or someone else something. A way to store notes.

You can use commands to go to the next or previous marker, or you can open the Markers panel, and even navigate to places on the timeline by selecting a marker. You can read the notes for that marker.

And of course there are commands to delete markers also.

Using the Help menu, get to the Manual and check the section on markers. Very useful tools.

Neil

[BrockPlaysFortnite]

ahh thank you, I didn't realize you could marker individual clips as well. I kept clicking away from the clip and hitting the clear all markers shortcut and was confused on why they didn't dissapear. 

[Baffy19]

Neil, when there are Markers on the clip itself, it is impossible to remove it specifically from one clip and not from all. Or am I wrong? Only with the command from the Markers tab - delete all Markers. I am interested in the question: how to delete a Marker marked on a particular clip? There is no usual click and delete function, as is done with Markers that we place on the timeline.

[R Neil Haugen]

Have you read through the full section on Markers? The operation of both clip & sequence markers is nearly identical, but with a couple minor caveats.

And are you working with the Markers panel at all?

Neil

[Baffy19]

Neil, because I'm a veteran. I figured it out. I have a question: where in the manual does it mention exactly how to display the clip in the original monitor in order to control the Markers installed in a particular clip. For me personally, and for others, if they ask a question here, it is unclear whether you need to double-click the clip to display it on the original monitor in order to manage these Markers. Whether it is necessary to use Match Frame in order to get to this very Markers. I don't like the Markers navigation information in the manual. Incorrectly stated. And if I just switched to Premiere and would like to use this feature, what then? Failure? Crash? Stupid questions?

[R Neil Haugen]

Hey, their manual is not up to what I would at all be comfortable with. And realistically, I think most of the program people agree with that at least in part. However, within Adobe,  manuals aren't up to the program managers. I am sure they have some internal capability to comment on them, but ... they are the ones making the decisions on how the manuals are written. Or how much detail is included.

It's one thing that BlackMagic does much better, with the 2,000+ page manual for Resolve. Even then, there are things not fully covered. Or somewhat unclear unless you know Y before you look up Z.

I use the Marker's Panel in Premiere when I want to check on or modify markers. And the use of that is somewhat covered, enough to get you going, if not as much as I would like it to be. Here's the current Markers "User Guide" section:

Using Markers in Premier Pro

If you read it all, it should answer most of your questions.

In the Marker's Panel, you can select one marker, hit delete, it's gone. Hold down Ctrl/Cmd while clicking several markers, hit delete, they're all gone.

You should probably learn a little bit about Marker keyboard shortcuts, which I've been using a lot. You can navigate using the "next marker" keyboard short to a marker and delete it, for instance.

And of course, there's the all-purpose "remove all markers" keyboard shortcut. If you go to the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog (Ctrl/Cmd-Alt-K) and type 'marker', there's probably at least 30 different actions with markers that either already have a keyboard shortcut or can if you choose to set it.

Neil

[Baffy19]

Yes, thank you, Neil. But, not too much. I would like more opportunities.