Using markers for organization

- [Instructor] As you're editing, you're always going to be making notes, things you need to do, concepts you need to communicate to others on the creative team, or items you need to check. In that regard, it's really nice to make notes right in your project or on the shot or even the frame that corresponds to your notes. And you do this with markers. I'm going to open up the 5.1 bin and load my Markers sequence. And you can put a marker anywhere within your sequence or attach to any of your source clips. Let's start with timeline markers. To add a marker, you simply move your cursor where you want to put a note. So I'm going to put a note the first time Charles is on screen here, because I'm going to remind myself that I need to make a lower third. I'm not going to make the title now, but I just need to place a reminder. So I'm going to park my playhead without selecting any clips. If I select a clip, it's going to place the marker on this source clip. But I just want to put it in the timeline, so I'm not going to select any clips. And then I'm going to press M. When I do that, a pale green marker appears. And if I double-click on this, it brings up the marker dialogue box, and I can add my notes. So I'll type Add lower third title. And I'll say OK. And if I ever want to amend my marker information, I can just double-click, my marker dialogue box opens up, and I can change the title, I can add comments, I can change the color, a lot of different things that I can change above markers. But for now, I'll cancel. Now, I'm going to come downstream, specifically to 139, I believe. Just type in here 13900. And it will pop to that point in the timeline. And I want to make sure that we have the talent release for some other people in this film, like Charles's wife, Nancy, and his daughter, and maybe a couple of customers. Let's come back here, and I'll place a marker. And if I know that I want to go straight into adding notes, instead of just pressing M once, I press M twice. So I'll say M, M. And now it automatically opens my marker dialogue box. And then under Name, I'm going to say Rights check. And under Comments, I'll say Check talent releases. Now before pressing OK, I want to point out a couple things. Right now, we're making a comment marker which is the default type, just adding notes. Other types of markers you can create are chapter markers, segmentation markers, web links, and flash cue points. To learn more about those marker types, you can check out the course Premiere Pro Guru: Markers for more information on that. Also up here, I have the ability to add a duration to my marker, which, of course, makes it a bit easier to see in the timeline, but it can also represent something that takes place over a certain number of frames. In this case, since I know that we have several shots in a row of people we need to check the talent releases for, let's go ahead and add a marker across these shots. One way to do it is to just input a duration here, or this is actually just a value shuttle, so I can click and then drag to the right. And I'm going to say OK. And here you can see that my marker has a duration. If I want to extend it, I can grab onto the edge and extend it like so. And of course, you can read the marker right here in the timeline. And you can see that I get a little popup that shows the title and also my comment and shows the duration as well. Let me go back to my first marker here. And I want to show you how to add a duration without opening the markers dialogue box. I'm just going to click on my marker. And then I'm going to Option + drag, or Alt + drag on a PC, and I can add the duration right in the timeline. And then again, you can also color code your markers. So let's say that my title markers are a different color. I'm just going to double-click. And we'll make title markers teal. And I'll say OK. Now, there are actually a surprising number of commands related to markers. In Premier Pro, there's a Markers menu. And so there's a lot to discover here. But I want to draw your attention to Go to Next Marker and Go to Previous Marker, Shift + M and Shift + Command + M or Shift + Control + M on a PC. So if you want to navigate through your timeline, you can. I'll press Shift + M. Oh, and I actually did have a marker on one of my source clips there. And then Shift + Command + M goes back through the timeline. Now probably the easiest way to see and access all of the markers in your sequence is actually to open the Marker window. And usually, it is here in the project panel as a tab. I'm going to go over to my double arrows, and it's Markers. If it's not there, just come up to Window and make sure that Markers has a check mark. But basically, you can see that in the window, we have a poster frame, we have in and out information, and we also can input comments, so I can type right in here. If I click on each of these markers, it will pop to that point in the timeline, which is nice. If I'd like to delete one or more markers, I can just select them and press Delete. Let me undo that. You can also delete from the timeline, right-click, and either Clear Selective Markers or Clear All Markers. And then over here in the window, you can also filter by color. So imagine here I have 60, 100 markers, and I just want to see my title markers, I can filter on teal. And I'll turn off that filter. Now, finally, just one more thing about markers, which, for many of you, might be the most important thing to consider. You can add them to your source clips. So let me go back to my project. And I'm going to load this clip here. So this is an interview. This particular clip is only a little over a minute long. But imagine that it's 30 minutes or an hour. You can come in and place markers at all of the interview subjects' answers. And then you can color code your interview subjects' responses so that the best sound bites are a different color. So the way I'm going to do this is open up my Marker window. And then I'm going to just listen to what Charles says. And then when he has a sound bite that I know that I'd like to include, I'm going to place a marker, and then I'm going to type what he says or at least paraphrase what he says. So let's play. And I'm going to shuttle forward with L at double speeds, so I'll press L twice until I identify a sound bite. - Finally, I have been involved in oysters right from the very beginning. So historically, I had heard stories about it. And as I was working at all these other things and running in circles, tackling like a rooster with his head half dropped off some of the time, I need something to relax. And I always thought you're going to relax, it be a good idea to make money while you're doing it. So I started out with a license to recreationally fish- Started out with- - [Instructor] All right, I'm going to press M, and let's play forward. - I started out with a license to recreationally fish oysters 'cause that was relaxing and I loved oysters. So then, I had the opportunity to move that to a commercial license. So I get commercial oyster license and started doing that just as a hobby 'cause it relaxed me. And so, you know, I knew the industry, is what basically happened. So I knew the industry, is what basically happened. - [Instructor] Okay, and I'll just Option + drag this over that portion of the sound bite. And because I have this edited onto a source clip, if this is in any sequences, that will show up there as a marker as well. If you can't see this, you just need to come to your wrench and make sure that Show Clip Markers has a check mark next to it. If this is unchecked, you can see that, I don't see my clip markers. This particular clip is in a lot of sequences in this project though. So I'm going to clear this. I'm just going to right click and choose Clear Selected Marker. All right, so those are markers. Very handy, little digital post-it notes that allow you to communicate to yourself or to others about anything in your project.