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Edit faster with phantom marks

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Edit faster with phantom marks

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- [Instructor] Phantom Marks are another fantastic time saving feature in Media Composer, that a lot of new editors never discover because it's been around for such a long time, and they don't really advertise it that much and you have to enable the option in the settings. So let me share this with you. It's a massive feature in my opinion. So down here on the timeline, I've got a clip I want to replace. And I'm going to mark the clip. I've just got my V1 and Audio one tracks turned on, and by-the-by, I'm in a sequence called Phantom Marks Complete. There's a Phantom Marks sequence you've been working with if you're following along with these assets. So I'm going to click Mark Clip, and now I've got In and Out Marks around this clip. And I know from looking at the composer window that the distance between those two marks is 47 seconds, and seven frames. So I want to take 47 seconds and seven frames of this clip 4B take two in my player monitor. Of course I can perform an edit right…

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