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Lee James
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October 3, 2018
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Track select forward doesn't move markers?

  • October 3, 2018
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I'm relatively new to Premiere and trying to insert a brief pause into the video. I used the razor tool to make a cut in the narration audio, and now I want to budge over everything to the right.

I thought I could do this with the track select forward tool, but it's not moving my section markers.

So, two questions:

1. What's the point of the track select forward tool if it doesn't move markers? Isn't it virtually useless? Or is it not recommended to use markers in our projects? I would find it very difficult to work on a large, complicated video without markers to let me see the overall structure at a glance.

2. Am I doing this wrong? Is there an easier way to budge everything over to the right? I'm just trying to create a gap in the narration, which I will later fill with a title (but I haven't started adding slides and titles yet).

    Correct answer Stan Jones

    Track forward doesn't do it, but here are 2 methods that will.

    Ripple insert and move sequence markers - how to do this?

    If you don't have the title ready yet, just create a dummy placeholder clip.

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    Ovidius9000
    Known Participant
    July 24, 2025

    bump.  Totally agree.  Markers are useless if they don't move when selecting all tracks/clips in timeline.

    caroline_edits
    Community Manager
    caroline_editsCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    July 25, 2025

    Hey, thanks for chiming in. Have you upvoted this feature request yet? I upvoted as well. We'll take a closer look into the possibility of having markers selected when using Track Select Forward. I'm sure there's a reason behind the current functionality, but we'll see what we can do.

     

    Thanks!

    Caroline

    sanderspost
    sanderspost
    Participant
    July 21, 2020

    I have found this annoying as well, but I have a different work around and it's fine for most situations. I just create a piece of transparent video, name it what I want the "marker" to say and then label color it. Unfortunately the text is a little smaller than that of the real marker and obviously it doesn't show up in the marker window. But, it's a solution for some situations.

     

    Nick

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    Meg The Dog
    Inspiring
    October 3, 2018

    I think you may be misunderstanding the purpose of the timeline on the sequence.

    Timeline markers provide a non varying temporal reference for the placement of clips. One if there main attractions is that they don't move when you adjust clips.

    Timeline markers are used to provide easy to see "flags" on that timeline, in the same way a carpenter might put marks on ruler or notches in a workbench - these "flags" calling out that something needs to happed at that temporal location.

    They exist independent of the clips that are placed in relation to them.

    Clip markers, on the other hand, are used to call out locations within clips. They should move if the clip moves, or if the clip is slipped or slid.

    But the Timeline markers should not move as they are released to the time of sequence.

    That said, there are ways to move you timeline markers if you need to do so as pointed out by shivangi gupta

    MtD

    Randune23
    Randune23
    Inspiring
    February 3, 2024

    Yes, I used timeline markers (up on the top) to signify which clips are tied to which timeline markers.  Now if I ripple delete the track with the clips that they are marked for.  But if I select all clips and want to move them farther down the right on the timeline the tracks all move but those pesky timeline markers do not.  There has to be an easy fix right?  Yeah, nothing is easy when it comes to PP.

     

    Randy

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 3, 2024

    It is as the feature is called: ripple which is not the same as move.

    Insert an asset to ripple.

    Shivangi_Gupta
    Community Manager
    Shivangi_GuptaCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 3, 2018

    Hi there,

    Welcome to Adobe forums and thanks for using Adobe Premiere Pro.

    I understand that you are trying to insert a gap in the sequence so that you can create a title later on to fill that gap. Is that correct?

    I assume that you have created sequence markers instead of clip markers. Sequence markers would never move if you move the clips. I would create clip markers instead to get rid of this problem.

    Select the clip and then press the M key to create clip markers. Now, you can move the markers along with the clips.

    Using markers in the Premiere Pro timeline

    Let us know if this helps.

    Shivangi

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    Lee JamesAuthor
    Known Participant
    October 3, 2018

    Hello Shivangi and thanks for your answer.

    Creating clip markers would not help me. In my video, there are several major sections, and each of those sections contains several different video and audio clips, so it would be impossible to mark the sections of the video using clip markers.

    I just want to be able to label the various parts of my video, for example "Introduction" and "Section 1" and "Conclusion" etc.

    To me, it seems like an oversight that the sequence markers don't move with the clips when using "Track select forward" and I am going to send feedback to Adobe about this.

    Thanks again.

    Stan Jones
    Community Expert
    Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    October 3, 2018

    Track forward doesn't do it, but here are 2 methods that will.

    Ripple insert and move sequence markers - how to do this?

    If you don't have the title ready yet, just create a dummy placeholder clip.

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