From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

Select ranges with markers - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 2019 Essential Training: 101 Fundamentals 1

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Select ranges with markers

- [Instructor] Markers can also have a time range based on in and out points that you've added to clips or sequences. Here, for example, I'm going to set a brief range for this clip using in and out points. And now I'm going to hold the Alt key on Windows, this would be Option on macOS, while I click the Add Marker button. Automatically, this marker has a span that ranges between the in and out points that I set. If I click to remove those in and out points, the marker range remains. This is really useful because it means you can highlight multiple parts of the same clip that you might want to work with. And there's another way to approach this. Let's say I add a series of markers to this clip, and I've set these so that the first and second marker represents one interesting region, the third and fourth represents another. If we look at our settings, and let's just take a look at our keyboard settings, and I hold down the Shift key to bring up these alternate keyboard shortcuts, take a look at the T key. It has this curious icon, Mark Markers. This exists in the command palette as well. The T key normally just marks clips, either the whole clip in the source monitor or a clip segment in a sequence. But Mark Markers does something a little bit different. Now, with my playhead in the source monitor, in between two markers, I can hold the Shift key and press T, and in and out points are added to the nearest two markers. Here, I can do it between these two. Again, I'm pressing Shift + T, and I'm marking this region of the clip. Remember, when you add a clip to a sequence, you only get the part that lies between the in and out points that you've assigned. It can get a little bit confusing in the naming because people very often use the words mark and point interchangeably when they're talking about in and out points. I know I have several times already in this training. But a marker is a very specific thing in the interface. It's these colored marks that you add to clips and sequences.

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