Importing markers to timeline

[seanvee]

Hello there-

I've done some googling / searching through the forums before posting here... but I believe my language may be the issue- maybe I'm just not phrasing this right. I'm looking to import markers onto my timeline, rather than an entire file with the markers in it. The only solution I can seem to come up with would be to set the in / out points for each marker and import them like that. I'd prefer to not do that.

Some background on my project may help: The core of this project is hours of standalone voice over work and I'm using markers to mark the best takes on voice over lines. I've found the markers to be amazing - from the ability to use the color lables as a grading system of sorts + using the comments to describe why one take is better than another.... but surely there's a way to import markers onto the timeline that I'm missing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Meg The Dog · Accepted solution]

My understanding of your question is that you want to use the Markers you set as in and out points of the clip so that you can just move the marked sections of the clip to the timeline - is that correct?

Did you use clip markers?

Are you familiar with Prelude? Here is a workflow for converting Markers to subclips for use in Premiere via Prelude by Wes Plate:

aWESome » Blog Archive » Logging magic with Adobe Prelude

MtD

[seanvee]

Yes-

I have multiple audio files with lots of markers per file.. I would like to just move the marked sections of these files into my timeline.

I have been using comment markers the entire time.

Thank you so much for the reference to Prelude... this seems a bit like a convoluted workaround more than an answer, but that's not your fault or anything... more like a gap in Premiere's workflow.

I'll go ahead and carry out my work in Prelude, but I'm hoping Prelude can recognize the comment markers I've already made, and convert them to subclips.

[Meg The Dog]

You can file a feature request to convert marker durations to in and out points for Premiere here:

Feature Request/Bug Report Form

MtD

[seanvee]

While this workaround is a tad bit annoying, and comes with it's own confusing issues... I've just resolved those issues and I will be using this method to continue my project. Thank you Meg!

[HarleyTDavis]

There's a markers panel you can play with now.  Select them, then copy them.  Open another sequence and the markers panel for it, in the panel, create a marker of any length, anywhere, then select it and paste your others (use the ctrl\cmd + C\V keypresses for copy and paste).  If this doesn't work, don't dupelicate the work... ...dupelicate the sequence.  Then drop the video out of the dupe after you've done a second take, mess with a marker or two to show where you overdubbed, rename this sequence with it's in out for the overdub.  Now you can use the in point in the name to drop this dupe in on the final sequence, and you should be gold.  Rinse and repeat as much as necessary.

I've used that last part plenty of times.  I've created several final videos with different transitions at different points--to showcase the motion, fades, etc--and I've also done this with audio to create several different versions of a video for different output standards.  Once you've got a sequence, if there's any AV data on it, sometimes you won't be able to adjust the settings, however, if you delete the AV and adjust the settings, then copy the AV back into the sequence, it still retains markers.  If you change framing speeds (60i to 30p etc), the markers will move accordingly, but might not always be there.

I hope this helps you.