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Start and End Markers group

Locator: Sound List Editor.

First, you need to make the KStart, End and Fade Markers group visable by clicking its section header bar (Figure 2).

Overview

  • Start-At marker - (Start At marker) When you play a Sound Item, it will begin playing at this time marker position.
  • End-At marker - (End At marker) When you play a Sound Item, it will stop playing at this time marker position.

These markers do not change the physical Media File. You enable these markers by checking the Enable checkmark (Figure 2). The Start At and End At markers appear visually along the placement time-line ruler (Figure 1). When a marker is disabled, the shape will be outlined with no color fill. You never actually delete these markers. They are just turned on and off with the Enable checkmark.

Note: If you change Start, End or Fade Markers while a Sound Item is playing, these values are not applied until the next time the Sound Item is played.

Figure 1.  Play Position group showing markers
Figure 1. Play Position group showing markers
LG Left Guide; SM Start At marker Start-At marker; FI Fade-In marker; FO Fade-Out marker; EM End At marker End-At marker; RG Right Guide.

Also see, Enable Start and End Markers in the Behavior menu that allows you to turn Start and End markers on and off globally without having to edit each Sound Item to enable / disable individual checkmarks.

Setting a Start-At or End-At Marker

    The process of setting Start At and End At markers is the same.

  1. Set the marker postion - Move the Play Position scrubber trackbar slider (Figure 1.) to a desired time position. Now click the Set Position from Trackbar button (Track Bar Position icon) (Figure 2.). The marker position is set to the value of the trackbar slider. You can also set a precise position time by clicking the Set Time button (Set Time icon) which will pop-up a time set dialog.
  2. Enable the marker - Click the Enable checkbox (directly to the left of the marker color icon).


Figure 2.  Edit group for Start, End and Fade Markers
Figure 2. Edit group for Start, End and Fade Markers