Jump to marker dilemma

Hi. I'm placing markers within subclips so that I can easily find the clips I need while editing. In my bins, I'd like to be able to double click on a marker and have it jump to that marker within the subclip. However, what is happening is that the clip defined by the marker (between clip marker and next clip marker) opens in the viewer.
I know you can navigate between markers with shift+up arrow or shift+down arrow, but this means I have to jump until I find the marker I want. Is there any way to get directly from the marker description in the bin to the marker position WITHIN the subclip, rather than have it open in the viewer?
Thanks in advance for any help!

Anthony Sergi wrote:
Is there any way to get directly from the marker description in the bin to the marker position WITHIN the subclip, rather than have it open in the viewer?
No way go from the Browser to the Viewer in the way that you're asking. (Unless I'm missing something.)
However, if it's a suitable workaround, you can load the (full, marker-laden) clip in the Viewer and then Control-click (right-click) on the Timecode Field in the upper right corner and select the Marker by name from the shortcut menu. That will jump the Viewer's playhead to the marker.
Or does that not fit the bill?

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*twinkle*

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Presentations as viewable content on the CD-Rom.
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just haven't been able to figure it out. I have a lot of experience
with Avid editing software, Photoshop, After Effects, and Encore. I
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under
Behaviours, Controls). Pick the appropriate label for each
button in
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each
frame. Put the 'Go Loop' behaviour on each of these frames
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easy as well if you can put forth the effort to learn Lingo.
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Actionscript has rollover and rollout events as well as
mouseDown and
mouseUp events. So one way to deal with this is to use the
individual
rollover and rollout events to send information about the
text display.
Then use the mouseup event for navigation control.
One way to simplify the work on the Flash end is to name each
button
instance. Then on the rollover, rollout and mouseup events,
send the
name of the button instance to Director. You can then use a
simple case
statement to parse out the button's instance name and use
that name to
tell Director what to do.
In flash, name your buttons, it could be as simple as "one",
"two", etc.
The write a series of functions for those buttons. Maybe
something like
this:
-- create an array to hold the names of all of the buttons...
var buttonArray:Array = new Array(one,two,three,four);
-- create a set of functions for these buttons...
for (i in buttonArray) {
buttonArray
.onRollOver = sendRollOver;
buttonArray.onRollOut = sendRollOut;
buttonArray
.onMouseUp = sendMouseUp;
-- for the rollover event, send a string that contains a key
word and
the button name...
function sendRollOver() {
var stringToSend:String = "roll$"+ parseButtonName(this);
getURL(stringToSend);
-- do similar for the mouseUp event...
function sendMouseUp() {
var stringToSend:String = "up$"+ parseButtonName(this);
getURL(stringToSend);
-- for the rollout event just send a simple string...
function sendRollOut() {
getURL("rollout");
-- this function will strip out the simple button instance
name from its
full path...
function parseButtonName(button) {
var buttonName:String = string(button);
var nameParts:Array = buttonName.split(".");
var shortName = nameParts[nameParts.length -1];
return shortName;
Now you have a very simple flash movie that doesn't need to
be edited
every time something changes in the Director movie.
in Director make a behavior that will sit on the Flash
sprite:
property thisSprite
on beginSprite me
thisSprite = me.spriteNum
end
on getURL me,data
if data = "rollout" then
member("text display member").text = ""
else
parseOut(data)
end if
end
on parseOut(thisString)
oldDelim = the itemDelimiter
the itemDelimiter = "$"
if thisString.item[1] = "roll" then
case (thisString.item[2]) of
"one": member("text display member").text =
"first button string"
"two": member("text display member").text =
"second button string"
-- continue as needed
end case
if thisString.item[1] = "up" then
case (thisString.item[2]) of
-- similar to above
end case
end if
the itemDelimiter = oldDelim
end
Rob
Rob Dillon
Adobe Community Expert
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Interactive audio

I need some help on writing a script.
I have a button over video that changes (when activated) the audio stream 2 for the viewer, that part is fine. When the track reaches the second marker of the button over video (end of subtitle) I would like for the audio stream to change back to audio stream 1 by itself by writing a script for that marker. How can I do this? Please help me.
Powerbook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Tricky.
The second marker is actually the end of the first marker, so you could try writing a script to switch audio streams and set it as an end jump for the first marker. I'm not convinced it will work, but the script will look something like this:
Set System Stream Au(Stream details)
Jump Trackname::marker
This might cause a pause when you playback the track without switching streams, since the end jump to the script and back will take a moment. You'll need to try it and see if it works, I'm afraid.

Any XML genius able to create markers from an EXCEL file?

We are working on a documentary with (surprise surprise) lots of interviews.
Our transcribers create documents in Excel, and I would like to be able to import them into a timeline as markers -- i.e 10:22:00;15 Buddy says 'Why would anyone name their kid Buddy?'
I'd like to be able to have a timeline created with a marker at 10:22:00;15 called: " Buddy says 'Why would anyone name their kid Buddy?' "
so that I can jump from marker to marker in the timeline and read what is being said.
Right now we have the tapes transcribed, and then essentially mark up the source footage with the same information - it seems to me eliminating that step would be of interest to a lot of editors.
Any thoughts? My technical knowledge of XML is close to zero, but from what I have read it seems like it would be the right tool for the job.
thanks,
John Hepworth
PowerMac g5 dual 2 ghz, 1.5 GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.3) FCP 5.0.4

easily doable by someone with the right know how ...if its not your thing, and if you don't have anyone else in your team with these kind of skills, then you need to hire a programmer.
everything you/they need to know is linked from here

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