I'd love to see an option to change the Marker type (Standard, To Do, Chapter) in the MarkerToolbox interface. To Do Markers make sense, but sometimes I'd like to create VFX Markers and I tend to use Chapter Markers for them. Unfortunately there is no way in FCP to batch change markers. MarkerToolbox would save me a lot of time if I could choose the Marker Type!

If I Command+C markers in the Edit Index and then paste them (Option+V) in the active timeline, the markers will be added at a different Timecode. See the Before/After screenshots. Might be a bug in FCP?!

Ideally I'd want to place my markers on the primary storyline instead of to the connected clips, copy-pasting would be the easiest and fastest way.

Reported by Matthieu Laclau.

Knut Hake writes:

And i was wondering if it would be possible in your marker toolbox to have the option to have short title clips with the marker on them and the text in them instead of the short video clips you generate.

Iain Anderson writes:

A quick feature request. Is it possible for Marker Toolbox to not include the visible on-screen titles? I would be happy to just have the markers, to avoid the risk of accidentally exporting a one-frame title into the final video.

Due to:

savePanel.allowedContentTypes = @[[UTType typeWithIdentifier:@"com.apple.finalcutpro.xml"]];

...because the UTType doesn't exist on the system.

Ideally you could put in the URL for a Frame.io project or folder, Marker Toolbox would download ALL the comments for all the clips in that project or folder, then if you drag a library or event to Marker Toolbox, it'll use filenames to match everything up.

It seems that Dropbox accidentally broke JSON support completely (clicking the link did nothing), and have now fixed it, but have completely changed the JSON structure.

Discussed here: https://dropbox-replay.canny.io/community/p/json-export-broken

Suggested by Alister Robbie via Twitter.

CSV Format:

Title,Version,Timecode,Thread Id,Comment Type,Reply,Created By,Creation Date & Time,Comment,Task Completed

Jeff Roy writes on Bluesky:

I love the product. Love having it in my arsenal. The only hangup is I was never able to get timecode+ markers applied onto existing clips in the browser. Dragging in a new slug from Marker Toolbox works properly.

However, I just did a basic test, and it seemed to work:

Will chase up Jeff for more information.

Benjamin Evans writes on Facebook:

That's great, Frame io still havnt fixed a bug where all comments are imported in black hollow text... making it very difficult to read. Might be time to switch back to Vimeo and give this a try.

Orlando Conde writes on Facebook:

Can you export Premiere Markers in to Avid?

Clients and my team almost always comment with minutes and seconds, never with hours and frames.

"12:20" is 12th minute, 20th second", never 12th second, frame 20.

Marker Toolbox insists on interpreting "12:20" as "second 12, frame 20". I tried adding various things like "Ignore frames. 12:22 means minute 12, second 22, NOT second 12, frame 22" to the prompt to no avail. Any tips?

It would be great if an offset could be applied to timecodes in Marker Toolbox. I have two scenarios currently where it would be a great help.

Clients often leave out the 10-hour portion of timecode in hand-written notes: e.g. they refer to 10:01:30:00 as "1:30". I'm getting around this in the (excellent—thank you!) Marker Toolbox by temporarily changing the timecode of the sequence (in this case, Avid) to start at 00:00:00:00, importing the notes, then changing it back to 10:00:00:00.

Also, if they send their notes in more than one batch (sometimes they'll only watch and respond to the first half and expect you to do those notes while they watch the rest), the timecode they refer to is often different now from the latest sequence. Applying an offset to all the new timecodes would bring it back into line for import.

By default the generated length of the comment is one frame. In bigger projects it is difficult to hover and see the comment in Viewer. Ability to set duration of the text to eg 10 or 20 frames would be great.

Discussed with Jeff Asher on Discord.

In addition to #5, it would be great if you could import a Frame.io .fiojson and be able to apply those comments to an individual clip as keyword ranges and/or markers.

Aaron Trinder writes:

This is brilliant !!! Can’t wait to try it out. Any chance you could do a similar translation with Dropbox replay ?

It would be great if you could drag in a Video Clip, Multicam Clip or Synchronised Clip, and have Marker Toolbox apply the markers to that specific clip, which you could drag back into Final Cut Pro.

Originally discussed with Iain Anderson.

It might be worthwhile adding a way to select a specific video version (or versions?) from a Vimeo CSV, based on @moosefuel's comments.

Discussed in #2

I possess a CSV file from Vimeo, but it's only covering a 2-minute duration in the Final Cut Pro timeline. Assistance is needed, please.
review_notes_880909397.csv

I think we accidentally reverted to the main icon when we adjusted the main application.

Iain Anderson writes:

Hey Chris — just one thing for Marker Toolbox. Not urgent at all, but if there's a newline in a comment, it should probably be included in the previous marker, not be given a 0:00:00 TC.

Reported by Iain Anderson.

For example, 6.12 for 00:06:12:00.

Timecode+ is an iOS app we use to make time coded notes during production. It only exports to TSV. I’ve attached two samples of TSV files from my actual interviews—one long, and one short.

I don’t see how to attach files, so here is a download link:
https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/05f-_k2T1lVoH5-UxFxcZjGKw#Timecode+_Notes

Thank you for your hard work!

Suggested by Scott Simmons.

Hi, i bought your software last month and everything was REALLY fine on the first project i used it on. My client used the Vimeo review page to add notes, i downloaded the .csv file, drag and dropped it in the fcp workflow extension and obtained a nice compound with all the markers, easy peasy. It was the first time in years that getting notes from a client was so streamlined and simple.

In the last week i started a new project, a 20 episodes television series and i decided that i was the right project to get the most out of Vimeo and your software. I have already exported several interviews to be cut by my producers, they already added the notes, but today, with my surprise, when i tried to import it in Marker Toolbox, i have only obtained a very short compound clip with no markers whatsoever.

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the application, using the stand alone version instead of the workflow extension, but nothing seems to work. The only way to get a working compound clip with markers is to copy the content of the .csv file and processing it as a text, but in this way everything that is written on the .csv file is written on the marker so it is really confusing and annoying.

I downloaded the csv from the project i already closed last month (the one where i used Marker Toolbox without problems) and it gives me the same problem, a really short compound with no markers. Next thing, i searched in my hard disks for a backup of the old notes downloaded last month and those files work like a charm.

I opened in Text Edit the new and the old version of the .csv downloaded from Vimeo and there's something different in the syntax of the file, in the new version the are a lot more quote characters, i copy/paste here two lines from the different files:

OLD ONE - February, 23 2024
"PNSS24 V2",25,01:53:22,"ProNails Italia","qui metti il Collage Nail art",--,"Friday, February 23, 2024 At 3:41 PM",Yes

NEW ONE - Today March, 27 2024
"PNSS24 V2",25,01:53:22,"ProNails Italia","qui metti il Collage Nail art","""--""","""Friday, February 23"""", 2024 At 3:41 PM""",Yes

It seems a problem on the Vimeo side, but it renders almost unusable your application, i'm attaching the two files so you can check the situation and maybe give me a solution.

[review_notes_915781192.csv]
(https://github.com/latenitefilms/MarkerToolbox/files/14774062/review_notes_915781192.csv)

OLD review_notes_915781192.csv

Thank you very much,
Dave

Suggested by Scott Simmons via Twitter DM.

FWIW - This is already possible with: https://en.editingtools.io/marker/

It might be worthwhile adding a checkbox to ignore resolved markers when importing a Vimeo CSV, based on @moosefuel's comments.

Discussed in #2