Support

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If a note didn't come through the way you expected, include the line from the email (change any names or details you need to) and the editor you're exporting for.

Importing markers into your editor

Avid Media Composer

1. In Notes2Markers, set Export for to Avid Media Composer and save the marker file.
2. Load your sequence in the Record monitor.
3. Open Tools, then Markers.
4. Right-click in the Markers window, choose Import Markers and pick the .txt file.

Media Composer can't read curly quotes, long dashes or "…" in a marker file, so the Avid file uses plain punctuation. Avid can also refuse two markers on the same frame and track; Notes2Markers flags those so you can fix them first.

Premiere Pro

1. Set Export for to Premiere Pro and save the .xml file.
2. In Premiere, choose File, then Import, and pick the file. Premiere adds a new sequence that holds the markers, starting at your sequence start.
3. To move the markers onto your own cut, copy the clips from your sequence and paste them into the new one at its start. Or turn on Copy Paste Includes Sequence Markers in the Markers menu and paste a clip from the new sequence into yours.

Premiere has 8 marker colors. Avid magenta becomes purple, and Avid black becomes orange because Premiere has no black.

DaVinci Resolve

1. Set Export for to DaVinci Resolve and save the .edl file.
2. In the Media Pool, right-click your timeline.
3. Choose Timelines, Import, Timeline Markers from EDL, and pick the file.

Resolve has 16 marker colors, so each color is matched to the closest one. White becomes Cream.

Exporting markers to make a notes list

• Avid Media Composer: in the Markers window, right-click and choose Export Markers as Text.
• Premiere Pro: choose File, Export, Final Cut Pro XML to keep marker names and colors. File, Export, Markers also works, but leaves out colors.
• DaVinci Resolve: right-click the timeline in the Media Pool and choose Timelines, Export, Timeline Markers to EDL.

Drop the file on the Markers to Notes tab.

How notes are read

• A line that ends with a colon, such as Director:, names the markers for the notes below it.
• A heading in capitals on its own line, such as ACT TWO or COLD OPEN, marks a section. Notes that mention an act, such as "act 2", are placed at the top of that act.
• A line that starts with "then", "and", "also", a lowercase word, or an indent is added to the note above it.
• Times without hours, like 14:32, count from your sequence start. You can turn this off.
• Common typing slips are fixed and flagged: extra spaces or colons, a missing colon, a range end missing its hour, or five numbers instead of four. A frame number too high for the frame rate uses the last frame.
• A note with an impossible time, such as 7:75, is left out until you fix its timecode in the table.