The next two buttons are pretty important when you are trying to mark certain portions of your Timeline either for editing purposes or for DVD Authoring. The first button here is for setting DVD Marker.
So when you click this button whatever the position of the Editline is, a marker will be created. The DVD Marker dialog box comes up. It allows you to name the marker, let's say this is Marker 1 and then you can decide the type of marker.
Now again, we are going to get into this later in the standard series. We are going to talk about how you can create a Custom DVD and then what's new. We are going to create a much more interactive DVD, but you can choose different DVD markers that accommodate different tasks. If you want a certain portion of your Timeline to be accessible from the main menu of your DVD, you would from the Marker Type dropdown menu choose Main Menu Marker. If you wanted a specific portion of your Timeline to be accessible from the scene menu which is a separate menu then the main menu you would choose for that marker to be a Scene Marker.
You can also click to turn on the Motion Menu Button, which means it takes whatever video content is at the place of that marker and shows it in a little thumbnail for wherever the scene shows up on the Scene Selection menu. If you want a offset the thumbnail from the source material here, you can go ahead and scrub that value. So here you can see the markers in black and a black portion of the sequence, but if I actually wanted to have it show in the first frame of the video, I can just scrub three frames in. Now the thumbnails for that marker instead of being black will have that first frame of picture that I scrub through in the offset menu.
Go ahead and click OK to get out of this. And then, if I was scrubbing to the sequence and wanted to create maybe a snap point, where I have some audio that references right here. I can go ahead and position the Editline at a certain point in time and I go ahead and press Set Unnumbered Marker or I press the Asterisk key on the keyboard. When I press the asterisk key or press Set Unnumbered Marker, it applies a marker right into the sequence like so.
So now you can see, I have a marker applied at that point in time. If I double-click on that marker I can assign any number of Comments, I can add a note for my Editor. I can make the marker have a certain Duration. So if I was saying, look at this shot from here to here. If I increase the Duration you will notice that the tail end of the marker will elongate and then if I have a specific Comment for that marker that I actually wanted to be used, if I am encoding an MPEG file, I can add a Chapter number there.
Additionally if I want, just to have an embedded Web Link in the video file, I could enter a URL Number and the target area for the frame where you would click on the video to access that URL. Go ahead and click OK and now we have this marker that has that duration that I specified and if I were to double-click it and if I had added comments, those would show up again there.
Go ahead and click OK and back out of that. So there you have snapping, DVD Markers and Standard Markers. All of which I just want you to have a base familiarity with, because as we use the application these are going to be imperative tools that you use to edit accurately and edit efficiently. That familiarity with these tools and with the Timeline panel, the Program Monitor, the Source Monitor and the Project panel, all help establish the foundation upon which the rest of the series will flow. So that wraps up our tour of Adobe Premiere Pro. I will see you in part two.
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