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Once placed within a shot, these markers can be used for navigation in the Viewer or
Timeline. You can also access a menu of every marker within a clip by opening the clip
in the Viewer and Control-clicking the Current Timecode field. Choosing a marker from
the resulting shortcut menu instantly moves the playhead to that marker.
Markers can also be viewed within the Browser (in list view) by opening the disclosure
triangle to the left of any clip that contains markers. All markers for that clip are revealed
in a list below the clip. Opening a marker in the Viewer opens a partial section of that
clip with a duration defined by the space between that marker and the next.
Use subclips to break longer clips into more manageable pieces
You can break long clips into smaller ones using the Make Subclip command in
Final Cut Pro. This is especially useful when you’re capturing extremely long clips from
tape that comprise many different shots all running together. It’s also useful when
ingesting tapeless media in which many takes were recorded as one continuous shot.
You can define individual subclips one by one with the placement of In and Out points,
or you can define many subclips all at once using markers.
Tip: If you’ve already added markers to identify multiple shots in a clip, you can select all
the markers in the Timeline and use the Create Subclips command to create subclips for
all the markers at once.
Organizing and Sharing Assets Using Final Cut Server
You can use Final Cut Server to help manage the assets of larger projects. Final Cut Server
includes features for project versioning, checkin, and checkout. It also offers advanced
tools for asset organization, metadata management, and media conversion—all of which
are especially useful in multiple-suite post-production facilities where multiple editors,
compositing artists, colorists, and sound designers need to access the same collection of
assets.
This scenario is most effective if your facility is set up with a storage area network (SAN),
such as a Fibre Channel network, that provides fast performance. Although it’s not required,
you can manage storage area networks using Apple’s Xsan software, to distribute access
to a shared RAID storage volume among multiple workstations.
For more information, see the Final Cut Server and Xsan documentation.
When Is Cinema Tools Involved with Media Organization?
Cinema Tools is an essential organizational tool whenever you’re ingesting film that was
telecined to video. Valuable notes from the set and other organizational information may
be included in the telecine log file that accompanies the transferred material, and
Final Cut Pro (in combination with Cinema Tools) lets you use that data to create a database
that tracks the correspondence between the edge code of the source negative and the
timecode of the transferred video, along with whatever additional data was added during
the transfer.
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