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Dragging a marker in the Source or Program Monitor’s time ruler moves the corresponding marker icon in a Timeline panel.

Note: Sequence markers in a nested sequence appear as clip markers (with a slightly different color) in the parent sequence and in the Source Monitor. To adjust a nested marker, open the nested sequence in a Timeline panel, and then drag the marker.

Delete a marker

1	Do one of the following:
•	To delete a clip marker, select the clip in the sequence, and cue the current-time indicator to the clip marker.
•	To delete a sequence marker, make sure that no clips are selected in the sequence, and cue the current-time
	indicator to the sequence marker.
2	Choose Marker > Clear Clip Marker or Marker > Clear Sequence Marker, and choose an option from the submenu:

Current Marker Deletes the marker at the current time.

All Markers Deletes all markers in either the clip or sequence (depending on the view you’re using).

Numbered Deletes a numbered marker from a list of all numbered markers.

Note: You can’t remove a sequence marker by dragging it away from the time ruler.

Add comments, chapters, and links to sequence markers

You use the Marker dialog box to navigate through sequence markers and Encore chapter markers, and to read or add data to them.

1 In a Timeline panel, double-click a sequence marker, or Encore chapter marker, to open the Marker dialog box.

You can open the Marker dialog box when you set the marker by double-clicking the Set Encore Chapter Marker button , or Set Unnumbered Marker button in a Timeline panel.

2 Set any of the following options:

Name Type a name for the marker.

Duration Drag the duration value or click the value to highlight it, type a new value, and press Enter/Return. When using markers for URL links and chapter markers, you can set sequence markers to be longer than one frame in duration. You might do this, for example, when setting markers in Premiere Pro that you will convert to cue points in FLV files. In a Timeline panel, a thin white bar extends from the right side of a sequence marker icon to indicate its duration.

Comments Type a comment you want associated with the marker.

Encore Chapter Marker Check this box if you want to make the marker an Encore chapter marker.

Web Link Check this box if you want to make the marker a hyperlink.

URL This field is enabled only when Web Link is checked. Enter the address of the web page you want to open.

Note: A sequence marker can contain a web address (URL). When the movie is included in a web page and the marker is reached in the movie, the web page automatically opens. Web links work only with supported formats such as QuickTime.

Frame Target This field is enabled only when Web Link is checked. Enter the target frame for a web page if using an HTML frameset.

Flash Cue Point Check this box to make the marker a cue point in Adobe Flash.

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Type This field is enables only if Flash cue Point is selected. Check Event to create a Flash Cue Point marker that will trigger an event. Check Navigation to create a Flash Cue Point marker that will be used for navigation only.

Plus and Minus buttons Click Plus (+) to add a Flash cue point, and to give it a name and value. Click Minus (-) to remove a Flash Cue point.

Name This field is enabled only if Flash Cue Point is selected. Type a name for your Flash cue point.

Value This field is enabled only if Flash Cue Point is selected. Type a value for your Flash cue point.

3 To enter comments or specify options for other sequence markers, click Prev or Next.

Note: DVD authoring programs such as Encore adhere to DVD guidelines that restrict the proximity of chapter links. When setting markers for use as chapter links, make sure to space them at least 15 frames apart, or by the amount required by your authoring software. Otherwise, your authoring program may move the chapter links automatically.

Read marker comments in tool tips

Once a marker is set, hovering over it in the time ruler produces a tool tip which displays the marker information. You can quickly scan marker contents without opening the Marker dialog box.

The sequence marker tool tip displays the following information on up to four items:

•Marker name (optional, shown only if entered)

•Timecode start (always displayed)

•Duration (optional, shown only if the marker has a duration)

•Comment text (optional, shown only if entered)

Note: When the Show Audio Time Units option is selected, the tool tips show marker location and duration in audio time units instead of timecode units.

Sharing markers with After Effects, Encore, and Flash

You can share markers between Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore, and Adobe Flash in any of the following ways.

•When you import a Premiere Pro project into After Effects, After Effects converts the sequence markers to composition markers.

•When you copy a sequence from a Premiere Pro Project panel and paste it into After Effects, the resulting composition keeps the sequence markers as composition markers, and the clip markers as layer markers. The copy- and-paste operation therefore preserves the markers in the way you would expect.

•When you export a sequence from Premiere Pro through Adobe Media Encoder into a container format, such as AVI, the sequence markers are saved into the file as XMP temporal metadata. When you use the video file as the source for a layer, After Effects converts these sequence markers to layer markers.

•When you create an After Effects composition through Dynamic Link in Premiere Pro, After Effects does not preserve the sequence markers and clip markers.

•Encore chapter markers added to a sequence in Premiere Pro will appear as chapter markers in Encore when the host clip is exported from Premiere Pro using the File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Send To Encore command.

•Sequence markers in clips exported from Premiere Pro appear as cue points in Adobe Flash projects if they contain text in their Chapter fields. The cue point data in the Chapter field of a sequence marker in Premiere Pro will be encoded as XML. For the XML protocol required, see Flash Help.

Note: You must add text to a chapter marker in Adobe Premiere Pro for that chapter marker to appear as a cue point in Adobe Flash projects.

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Working with markers and cue points

Add Encore chapter markers

You can add Encore chapter markers to any sequence in Premiere Pro. Encore reads these markers as chapter points when you export the sequence to Encore using File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Send To Encore. In Encore, you can link chapter points to buttons in menus. Also, viewers can use the chapter advance buttons on their DVD remote controls to navigate through chapter points.

Premiere Pro automatically places an Encore chapter marker, labeled Chapter 1, at the beginning of each sequence you create. You can rename this chapter marker in Encore.

You can name Encore markers as you place them. The name you enter in Premiere Pro appears as the label for a button in the main menu or scenes menu in Adobe Encore.

Note: Encore no longer imports Premiere Pro sequence markers as chapter points. For projects created with earlier versions of Premiere Pro, replace sequence markers with Encore chapter markers if you want to retain those chapter points in discs made from the project.

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

Note: In Encore, the Play button on each main menu template automatically links to the start point of the time ruler. You need not place a marker there unless you want it listed in the scenes menu.

2 Click the Set Encore Chapter Marker button .

To quickly place a marker, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the time ruler. Choose the type of marker you want to set at the current-time indicator.

3In the time ruler, double-click the Encore Chapter Marker you created. The Marker dialog box opens.

4Type a name for the marker. Keep the name short so that it fits in the menu and does not overlap another button. (You can adjust the name later, in Encore.)

5Click OK.

More Help topics

“Sharing markers with After Effects, Encore, and Flash” on page 214

“Send a sequence to Encore to create a DVD, Blu-ray Disc, or SWF” on page 442

“Create a dynamically linked composition from Adobe Premiere Pro or Encore” on page 39

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