Working with Markers and Restrictions
Markers are frame-specific indicators that a user can add when logging media with MediaCentral UX, Interplay Assist, or Interplay Access. A MediaCentral UX user can add markers in the Logging pane. For more information about adding markers, see
Logging Interplay | Production Assets and Creating Subclips.
In Media Composer v6.0, Avid Symphony v6.0, and NewsCutter v10.0, the term “locators” was changed to “markers” in both the user interface and the documentation.
Marker icons are displayed in the Media timeline. If you park the position indicator on a marker that includes text, and you select Overlay Text from the Pane menu, the text is displayed as an overlay in the Media viewer. You can click a marker to jump to it and display its text.
1 | Marker indicators in the Media Timeline | 2 | Marker indicator and marker text |
You can use keyboard shortcuts to step to the next marker or to the previous marker.
To step to the next marker:
Press Ctrl+Shift+right-arrow key.
To step to the previous marker:
Press Ctrl+Shift+left-arrow key.
A restriction is a set of two markers that indicate clips whose use is limited in some way, such as through intellectual property rights management. Restrictions are marked in light red in the timeline in the Media pane, as shown in the following illustration.
