Section A.5. Markers Menu

A.5. Markers Menu

Most of these commands have to do with bookmarks, the little markers in your Movie Track that let you jump among important spots in your movie without any scrolling or hunting. Bookmarks are described in detail on page 140.

• Add Bookmark creates a little green diamond marker in your Movie Track at the position of the Playhead. Keyboard shortcut: -B.

• Delete Bookmark deletes whatever bookmark you've just clicked. Keyboard shortcut: Option- -B.

• Delete All Bookmarks does just what it says.

• Previous Bookmark/ Next Bookmark make your Playhead jump backward or forward to the next closest bookmark you've already created. Not nearly as useful as their keyboard equivalents, -[ and -].

• Add Chapter Marker creates a different sort of marker: a tiny yellow diamond that denotes the beginning of a scene or chapter, as it will appear on a DVD's main-menu screen once you export your movie to iDVD. You can place chapter markers only at the very beginnings of clips.

  Remember that you can type names for your chapter markersand access a second way to add and delete themby clicking the iDVD button beneath the effects and sounds panel. See page 357 for more on chapter markers. Keyboard shortcut: Shift- -M.

• Delete Chapter Marker deletes whatever chapter marker you've clicked in the Movie Track. Keyboard shortcut: Option- -M.