Notes to markers. Instantly.

Notes arrive as email

Clients don't send you XML. They send a wall of text with timecodes that are approximate at best - and they expect every one addressed.

Markers are one-at-a-time

No batch rename, no shift-all-by-an-hour, no filtering, no bulk delete. Thirty notes means thirty round-trips through the same dialog.

Nothing tracks progress

Which notes are done? Which were skipped on purpose? Premiere can't tell you, so you keep a second checklist somewhere else.

Fuzzy timecode interpreter. Minutes-only, "ish", dots instead of colons, timed note blocks - if a human meant it as a timecode, MarkerBuddy reads it as one.

TC offset built in. Notes taken against a 01:00:00:00 export? Shift every imported timecode by ± HH:MM:SS:FF in one field.

Fully undoable. Every import is one entry in MarkerBuddy's own undo history. A bad paste is one click from gone.

Keep the Main Panel open while focused tools stay nearby.

Open Import Notes/Markers and Export As as centered Main Panel dialogs. Keep Automation Center in an independent non-modal panel. Mirror Quick Markers, Location Memories, or Add Marker without removing them from the Main Panel.

Eight editorial defaults. One click.

Start with eight editable templates: B-Roll, VFX, Audio, Music, SFX, Graphics, Color, and Review. Quick Markers starts closed on a new installation; use the Quick Markers button beside Add Marker to show or hide the bar. MarkerBuddy remembers your choice and wraps the templates automatically when the panel is narrow.

Finish complex marker jobs without leaving one workspace.

Open one place for batch edits, reconforms, transcript searches, audio analysis, frame exports, clip sync, multicam markers, VFX pulls, text overlays, and Audition handoffs. Every tool shows you what it found before it changes the timeline.

Find the strongest clap or slate moments in selected audio.

MarkerBuddy analyzes only the audio you select, ranks the most likely sync peaks, and lets you choose which ones become source markers. Everything stays local. Because music, applause, and action can look like claps, you stay in control of the final choice.

Add beat markers to music without entering a BPM.

Select music clips and MarkerBuddy estimates the tempo, shows the proposed pulse, and lets you mark every beat, every second beat, or every fourth beat. Nothing is added until you choose the results, and no audio leaves the computer.

Turn marker notes into editable on-screen text.

Use marker names or comments to build editable graphics with the bundled MarkerBuddy template. Choose typography, colors, padding, and screen position; MarkerBuddy fits the active sequence, preserves marker timing, and avoids occupied tracks.

Send clip markers to Audition with audio and timecode intact.

Select timeline audio and export a local reference WAV with embedded BWF/XMP marker metadata, plus separate XMP, CSV, and JSON files. MarkerBuddy validates the package before delivery and never uploads the media.

Send Premiere notes to the Pro Tools marker ruler.

Export selected or filtered Premiere markers as a marker-only AAF, then add them to an existing Pro Tools session with Session Data import.

Turn the right words into markers.

Inspect an existing Premiere transcript, filter exact speakers or unlabeled words, choose point or matched-phrase timing, then approve every result before MarkerBuddy writes anything.

Keep ten timeline locations one click away.

Save sequence markers to LM1-LM10 by dragging a row or choosing Set as Location Marker. If you start with a clip marker, MarkerBuddy converts it only after confirmation. Assignments travel in the sequence marker comment, and the LOC column, mini-timeline LM# labels, and optional Stream Deck actions make each saved location easy to recall.

25 actions. One creative control surface.

The shipped Quick Marker keys show B-Roll, VFX, Audio, Music, SFX, Graphics, Color, and Review in their factory colors. Add marker, navigation, Undo, status, and Location Memory 1-10 actions complete the 25-key set; all ten Location Memory faces use the same blue bullseye. Customized Quick Marker values do not live-update the static key artwork. The integration stays local, with no cloud bridge or account.

Your timeline becomes the checklist.

Check off notes as you address them - MarkerBuddy stamps the completion time into the comment. Exclude the ones that don't apply. Filter to what's left, and you always know exactly how far from done you are.

See every marker at a glance.

A miniature map of the whole sequence uses circles for point markers and horizontal bars for spanned markers. Saved Location Memories add connected LM# tags; click any marker to jump straight to it.

Edit thirty markers like they're one.

Find and replace across names, colors, and comments, append or prepend text, or shift timecodes by any offset - scoped to your selection, a color, a status, a track, or everything. Previewed before you commit, applied as a single undoable step.

It reads what your clients send.

Paste text or drop a file - MarkerBuddy auto-detects the format and previews every detected marker before anything touches your sequence. From polished exports to a messy email, it figures out what your client meant.

Markers out, to anywhere post lives.

Choose from 21 export formats, including the standalone, export-only Pro Tools Marker AAF for adding markers to an existing Pro Tools session without audio or video media. The PDF report can embed a captured frame at every marker.