i am working on a silent movie film project and need my syncmarkers to appear on specific beats in a bar, because the music is designed to be played live by an orchestra and is a “little flexible”. For the conductor i need to prepare a topmost sync-stave with the syncpoints appearing on beats.
What i see so far, is that Dorico always and only uses Timecode for positioning. This makes it hard for me to assure, that a marker appears e.g. on the 3rd beat of a bar.
No, this is how markers work: they occur at fixed time positions, not at fixed rhythmic positions. Either edit the tempo so that the markers land where you want them to, or don’t use markers: you could add boxed text at particular rhythmic positions in the music if that’s what you actually want or need.
OK, i tried something else…
What i did now is:
modified my markertrack in layout options to show markers “above system”, added a unpitched one-line percussion instrument, moved it to the top. Now i have a rhythmical grid where i can add my rests in and then move my markers to sit on these rests in engrave mode.
Hello - BUT I DONT want markers to be TIME related - but attached specifically to beat/bar positions, corresponding with differing sections or movements of my pieces.
Surely, Dorico could enable a second option for marker reference point attachments?
I’ve tested these options - Rehearsal marks are closer to what I wanted (ie font, box text, jump < > ability between markers. System Text a possibility, but then needs manipulation to get font, style - but no jump ability). so overall, I still prefer if Dorico COULD provide an option for existing Markers to have option to be beat/bar affixed!!
When you make a paragraph style a saved default, you can give it a shortcut (a keycommand) and you no longer need to do all the formatting operations. I really think it’s worth exploring
