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To mark the Timeline itself, make sure all clips are deselected, and do one of the following:
Press M.
Click the Marker button to place a marker of the currently selected color in the
Timelineruler.
To place a marker during playback and immediately open the marker dialog to
enter a name or note within it, select one or more clips you want to mark, then press
Command-M (or press M twice). Playback pauses until you enter some text and close
the marker dialog again, at which point playback continues.
Click the Marker drop-down to choose a different color, and click the Marker button.
Right-click in the Timeline ruler and choose a marker color from the Add Marker
submenu of the contextual menu.
Choose Mark > Add Marker > Current Color (M) to add the current marker color.
Alternatively, you can choose Mark > Add Marker > Blue/Cyan/Green/and so on to add
a marker of a specific color directly to clips or the Timeline. These commands can be
assigned specific keyboard shortcuts if you want to be able to place a specific marker
color at a keystroke.
Individually mappable marker color commands
Saving In and Out Point Ranges As Markers with Duration
You can also create markers with duration to keep track of any region of a clip or timeline that
you’ve defined with In and Out points. This lets you identify multiple regions of a clip that you
might later want to edit into a program.
To turn In and Out points into a marker with duration:
1 Set In and Out points in the Source Viewer jog bar to identify a region you want to log
for future reference.
Marking In and Out points in preparation
to log that section of the clip
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