Sorry, Steven (and others...) the lateness of the hour etc. I put a lot of my intended reply to this in the following message:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4676990#4676990

It's replying to a related issue.

Here's the timeline. Note the multiple clip markers. They're now officially HELL to get in. AVCHD doesn't make timecode (well, I hear it DOES but no one knows how to extract it...note the names of my files which are made by an external program, they are the exact year/month/date/hour/minute/second at which the record button was pressed - if THAT'S in the metadata, tell me it can't make timecode...but that's for another post on ANOTHER night...)

Anyway, the old method of inserting clip markers is gone, and the replacement is NOT fun. When I have to re-sync (for each clip - note that the green audio clip is one of the originals synced to the clip markers and used to enhance the audio in the finished product; there are lots of those and each one needs the clip to be cut, moved out and re-synced, because there's a variable length of dialogue between the musical numbers so it's NOT just one sync. Note that the timeline above shows three sets of markers - the second one being redundant and I should have gotten rid of it - and the green inserted sequence was synced separately before being exported to YouTube.

The current workflow: place the timeline somewhere in the Source Monitor and type M, a marker appears...generally in the wrong place in the timeline. Drag it in Source Monitor until it's in the right place in the timeline. Pray a lot.

Jim, thanks so much. The "buried" commands keep being elusive (and I'm training my fingers to hit "Ctl-Alt-Shift-M" which I stole for Mark Clip from Clear All Markers which  I'm less likely to use). I did go into the wish form and express that this should not have been removed from the Clip and/or Marker menu.

The really helpful one (Adobe TS couldn't find this one yesterday) was the F key shortcut. Pressing F M essentially solves the problem for me...it would be nice if it were more easily available. It's kind of like coming into a restaurant and finding out that there's a secret "extra" menu (there often is, actually...)

"In 'n Out" hasn't deigned to enter the NY market...oh well. I understand it's great.

The one completely audio sequence would be great if people sang like computers Unfortunately, singers make mistakes and/or just sound better on one number one day than on the next, so there's a bit of mix & match going on; also in some places the sound guy didn't put the audio track high enough and the client wants to "goose" it a bit by adding in some of the original (originally midi, now MP3) audio.

ALSO - the musical numbers will match exactly but the spoken dialog won't. As I mention below, there are multiple MP3s that run the show, each fired by a sound man on a specific onstage cue. As a result each number has to be trimmed out and re-synced. EACH song will match its MP3 exactly but the whole timeline won't. I know, I know...there may be trouble somewhere down the line. So far it actually LOOKS pretty good, though. I'm about 23 minutes into the 2 hour timeline.

Take a look at the YouTube clip of "Easy as..." and you'll see how it works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgpI3aVfIgk&feature=plcp

There are a few associated clips around that one (including the February workshop which I also did the video for, but no monkey business with multi clips on that one). It's possible, if you know what's going on, to find some inconsistencies (blonde dancer has her hair different one night than the other; lip sync isn't perfect etc.) but the effect does satisfy the client and it's a really good exercise in editing

BTW - I can't use the MP3 as reference because there are many (like 30) MP3s associated with the show, fired up on cue by a sound man backstage - RUNNING IT FROM AN IPOD. That's "fringe theater" for you (it was part of NY Fringe Festival - the show has to be able to enter and clear the theater in FIFTEEN MINUTES per move, there is about 45 min between shows in the same theater etc.)