timing marks

[charlie-68]

I'm having a little issue today. Since my system crash and I lost much, I'm working on my sequences the past several days. My sequences are all aminated, being 4-5 minutes long, with 20 sec. for each effect. I started using timing marks and found that it makes things much easier. I'm having trouble getting the timing marks into an aminated sequence. This is not addressed as most of you all do musical sequences. I'm just trying to set 20 sec timing marks and I retry several times before it works. Can you help my?  Charlie J.

[jnealand]

A few years back when I was doing something similar I created a text file for every 110 sec timing marks.  I named it "every-10-sec.txt".  When you create a new sequence there is a tab at the top that says timing.  Click that, then click import, change the selection criteria to txt and point to the file that you create and named.  You can also do this for a sequence you already created by going to sequence settings, timing, import

Here is the format for my file
0   10   1
10   20   2
20   30   3
30   40   4
40   50   5
50   60   6
60   70   7
70   80   8
80   90   9
90   100   10
100   110   11
110   120   12

[deplanche]

When creating a new sequence, after you click animation the sequence setting window opens up.  If you already have a sequence created, go to Settings/Sequence Settings.

On that window, click the Timing Tab.  At the bottom of that, click "New."  In the window that opens, change the Select New Timing Interval to Metronome and click OK.  Enter in the timing that you want to use in milliseconds, so for 20 second spacing, enter 20000 and hit ok.  You'll now have a new timing track with the spacing you chose there for all the marks.

[charlie-68]

Thanks to you. I thought the way that jnealand was a bit compilcated, so I checked out the way deplanche said how to do the timing marks, I found his way was good.  So thanks to both of you.  Charlie J.