Markers can be extremely helpful – but haven’t been very versatile. Final Cut 7 includes an update on the markers that provides all kinds of goodies. There are new colors for the markers. You can easily move them- and not just awkwardly to the right. You can edit them without stopping playback. You can export them. Ripple Training has a good overview of all the new features with markers.

Find the tutorial here – under Final Cut Pro 7, click on the link under “Improved Markers.”

Great! You have your project all ready to go, you just need to get it to the client. How do you get it from Final Cut to a DVD? This concise guide doesn’t go much into depth, but will get you where you need to go, making sure your markers are intact.

Read the tutorial here.

Markers can really help speed up the editing process. We’ve looked at markers before, but this tutorial from Kevin McAuliffe looks at scoring markers in particular.

Read the tutorial here.

Markers are definitely a useful tool for everything from marking problem spots to marking DVD Chapters, but it can be frustrating to go into DVD Studio Pro, and find your markers haven’t followed you. Ken Stone goes over exporting markers to make DVD Chapters, mark scoring points, and for compression.

Read the tutorial here.