Markers in the Timeline Sequence

Hi,
I am now cutting again on FCP Studio and discovering how great the program is once again. While there are things AVID does better, I do find FCP has grown so well in the last few years. good to be back.
This brings me to the subject of markers - and there use within FCP.
Now I'm used to locators on an AVID (please bear with me), which allows an editor to mark the timeline sequences as well as the clips. Nothing different in FCP.
However I have noticed that an editor can mark the Sequence timeline and leave notes for themself or for future work such as scoring e.g.
But this isn't the same for clips.
Yes, markers can be added to a clip with readable info but only at the capture stage.
If you were to add a marker after that stage, the marker is just a position tool and nothing more. In fact, a dialog box can be brought up and info added but then with NO WAY to read it.
how strange.
As an editor, being able to add markers to clips during the editing process would greatly help. notes for cutting, or dialog snippets would help aswell.
Timeline markers do not help since we recut all the time and the markers don't move unless they are done so manually. It isn't feasible to ask an editor to move hundreds of these things.
So unless someone has a great work around, I'd love to see Apple add this functionality to FCP.
Any thoughts anyone?
M

If you mark up a clip in the Viewer, and then drag that clip into the timeline, the markers will be there. As long as that sequence is in the same project. If you drag the clip onto a sequence that is in ANOTHER project, markers are are still there...BUT, when you match frame, you match frame to the clip on the drive, NOT the clip in the browser of the other project, thus the markers will not show up in the Viewer.
In a way it makes sense WHY it happens...because clips dragged into one project cannot find the original in another project with a keystroke. Thus a small drawback to the multiple project workflow.
Shane

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