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Marking keyframes

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Marking keyframes

In any project where I want to emphasise certain moments of the picture with music or sound design. I like to take a couple minutes to lay down some markers on specific spots I want to play up with a musical, a rhythmic edit. Most DOS allow you to lay out some form of marker or bookmark throughout the session. In Pro Tools they're called markers, I just want to make sure that I'm seeing them here. View. And I want to make sure that rulers, markers is checked. Now what I can do is go through here, and I'm going to use my grid in this case to help me. But if I didn't already have that tempo from the temp music set up I would work in frames mode so that I can go frame for frame through the video. And I'm going to go through and I'm going to find certain spots where I need to hit picture, like these first two moments where I have the flash one (MUSIC). And I'm going to mark those so I'll hit enter on my numeric keypad to get a new memory location.I don't really need to name this. I can if…

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