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•To navigate in the History panel, drag the panel’s slider or scroll bar; or choose Step Forward or Step Backward from the panel menu.

•To delete a project state, select the state. Then choose Delete from the panel menu or click the Delete icon and click OK.

•To clear all states from the History panel, choose Clear History from the panel menu.

Remove alerts with the Events panel

Premiere Pro Events lists warnings, error messages, and other information you can use to identify and troubleshoot problems, particularly those associated with plug-ins and other components from third-party developers. An alert icon , , on the status bar notifies you of an error. Double-clicking the icon opens the Events panel, and clearing the associated item from the Events panel removes the icon from the status bar.

1 Do either of the following:

•Double-click the alert icon in the status bar.

•Choose Window > Events.

2 Do any of the following:

•To learn more about an item in the list, select it and click Details.

•To clear the events list, click Clear All.

Working with markers

Add markers

Markers indicate important points in time and help you position and arrange clips. You could use a marker to identify an important action or sound in a sequence or clip. Markers are for reference only and do not alter the video.

You can use sequence markers to specify cue points for FLV files. You can also use sequence markers to specify a URL to send a user to a web page. Premiere Pro also provides Adobe Encore chapter markers that you can add to a sequence to specify scenes, or a menu structure for sequences that you export to Encore. (See “Add Encore chapter markers” on page 215.)

You can add markers to a sequence, to a source clip, or to an instance of a clip in a sequence. When you are marking editing points, whether you add markers to a clip or sequence depends on your workflow.

Each sequence and each clip can individually contain up to 100 numbered markers (labeled from 0 to 99) and as many unnumbered markers as you want.

Markers appear in the time ruler of the Source and Program monitors as small icons. Clip markers also become icons within the clip as it appears in a Timeline panel, and sequence markers appear in the sequence’s time ruler.

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A B C

Marker icons in a Timeline panel

A. Sequence marker B. Clip marker C. Encore chapter marker

When setting markers (as with In and Out points), make sure that you’re working with the version of the clip you want. Markers added to a source clip (opened from the Project panel) also appear in the clip when you add it to the sequence. Changing markers in a source clip does not affect individual instances of the clip already in a sequence. For a video on working with markers, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0255.

Franklin McMahon has this video tutorial on using clip markers.

See this tutorial by Andrew Devis from Creative Cow on using markers to pace your editing.

Richard Harrington provides a video tutorial on the Creative COW website that demonstrates placement of markers for synchronizing edits to audio.

Robbie Carman explains how to use markers to mark beats and words to aid you in aligning and trimming clips in this video from Peachpit TV for Video.

More Help topics

Metadata and markers

“Add comments, chapters, and links to sequence markers” on page 213

Working with markers and cue points

Add an unnumbered clip marker

1 Do one of the following:

•To add a marker to a source clip, double-click the clip in the Project panel to open it in the Source Monitor.

•To add a marker to a clip in a sequence, double-click the clip to open it in the Source Monitor.

2In the Source Monitor, move the current-time indicator to the location where you want to set the marker.

3Do one of the following:

•Click the Set Unnumbered Marker button .

•Select Marker > Set Clip Marker > Unnumbered.

Add an unnumbered sequence marker

1In a Timeline panel, move the current-time indicator to the location where you want the marker.

2Do one of the following:

•Click the Set Unnumbered Marker button in the Program Monitor or a Timeline panel . (Double-click the Set Unnumbered Marker button to open the Marker dialog box as you set it.)

•Select Marker > Set Sequence Marker > Unnumbered.

To insert unnumbered markers while a clip or sequence plays, press the asterisk key (*) on the numeric keypad whenever you want to insert a marker.

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