Marker Menu

Markers are visual landmarks. They can mark a start of a specific animation sequence, the end of a camera movement, and so on.

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Markers are visual landmarks. They can mark a start of a specific animation sequence, the end of a camera movement, and so on.

When you add one then a marker area appears at the bottom of the timeline.

Markers can be pulled around by clicking at them and dragging them left or right. The active marker is yellow.

By holding down shift you can select more than one marker.

Entry	What it does
Add Marker	Adds a marker at the current frame position
Duplicate Marker	Duplicates the selected marker(s). The duplicate(s) sticks at the mouse until you click to give it the target destination.

Duplicate markers to other scenes. A blend file can contain more than one scene. See Scene Properties in the Properties editor.

Deletes the selected marker(s).

Bind camera to markers turns an object into a camera object. This can be any object in the scene. Not just camera objects.

When the current frame position does not have a marker yet, then it creates a marker at the current frame position.

By binding different objects or cameras at different marker locations you can switch cameras automatically.

The marker with a bind camera attached will show a camera icon.

A menu will open up where you can rename the active marker.

Entry	What it does
Grab/Move Marker	Hotkey only functionality! This menu item exists to show the hotkey to move the marker.
Select submenu	All: Select all markers. · None: Select nothing. · Invert: Invert the selection. · Before Current Frame: Select all markers before Current Frame. · After Current Frame: Select all markers after Current Frame.
Jump to Next Marker	Sets the frame position to the next marker.
Jump to Previous Marker	Sets the frame position to the previous marker.

Dopesheet Editor - Marker Menu