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Marking and Subcataloging Footage
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To move a mark icon:
t Press the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key (Macintosh), drag the mark icon to a new
location, and release the mouse button.
Marking an Entire Clip or Segment
Use the Mark Clip button to select an entire clip or an entire segment from a sequence. (A segment in
a sequence consists of the material between any two edit points.) The Mark Clip button chooses a
segment between the first set of edit lines that line up on all the selected tracks.
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To ignore the current track selection and mark the material between the two nearest edit points at the
current position in the sequence, press and hold the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh)
while you click the Mark Clip button.
To mark an entire clip or segment:
1. Load a clip or sequence into a monitor.
2. In a sequence, move the position indicator to the segment that you want to mark.
3. In the Track Selector panel in the Timeline, select the tracks corresponding to the cuts you want
to mark.
For more information, see “Understanding the Track Selector Panel” on page 555.
4. Click the Mark Clip button.
Creating Subclips
When you mark footage with IN and OUT points, either you can save the entire clip along with the
new marks, or you can create subclips based on the marks you set to break up longer master clips into
smaller segments of selected footage. This procedure is similar to creating a pull reel of the selects or
circle takes of your best footage before editing.
Subclips do not directly reference the original media. Subclips remain linked to the master clips from
which they are created, and the master clips, in turn, reference the captured media files located on
your media drives. As a result, none of the original footage is lost.
In most projects, subclips do not limit your access to the original, captured master clip material when
trimming. Therefore, if you must trim beyond the marked IN to OUT boundaries of the subclip to
make it longer or shorter, Media Composer accommodates the boundary adjustments during the trim.
However, when subclips are created in 24p or 25p projects, they are always created as “hard”
subclips, and you cannot trim past the edges of the subclip when adjusting transitions and edits. Hard
subclips prevent film tracking information errors for editing and cut lists.
New subclips appear in bins with a distinct subclip icon and with a numbered .Sub file name
extension.
A subclip in Text view in the bin