The Editblog

Every once and a while you find a nice little gem off of user and support forums. Andy Mees is a frequent contributor to the Apple Final Cut Pro forums and he linked to his personal .mac site for a download of a little program called Get Markers. It’s a bare-bones application that accomplishes a very simple task: it gets and displays a list of markers from a Final Cut Pro edit sequence. It does this via an xml export on the edit sequence.

As you can see from the window above you get the marker name, the timecode where it is located in the edit, the duration of the marker if it is extended more than 1 frame and a line of comment information. This is a very handy app to have especially if you are working with a client that also has the same edit and media on their own FCP system. You can email a FCP project file with just the current sequence, they can reconnect the media and make notes, send it back and you can then export an xml of the edit and print those notes out. Get Markers will accept xml version 1 and 2 but errors when attempting to open a version 3. There is a little interface weirdness as you have to drag the corner of the default window and make the window bigger to see the button for a printer view. I’m guessing that Andy may have written this app himself. What a handy skill to have as an editor…. you need a helper utility then you can create it yourself! Thanks Andy for Get Markers. And there’s also a few Final Cut Pro plug-ins that he’s got up on his site as well.

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