How to use beep markers.
Mark the good moments while you record, without touching breaking your flow. Press a button, a beep lands on a spare audio track, and Footage Reviewer finds every one of them later.
A timestamp trail you make on set
When something noteworthy happens during a recording (a great take, a mistake to cut, a moment to clip), you usually have to remember the timestamp or dig for it afterwards. Beep markers solve this: you play a short beep sound onto a dedicated audio track the moment it happens. That track never goes into your final edit; it exists purely as a timestamp trail.
Back in Footage Reviewer, you tell the app which track holds the beeps. Then you can hop between every marked moment with the B key, or convert all beeps into markers in one click.
Brief overview
The short version of the setup. For every click with screenshots, see the full guide below.
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Download the beep sound
Grab the same beep file the app uses for detection:
Download Beep_Marker.wav (also available in the app under Setup > Download beep .wav).
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Bind it to a Hotkey
Set up something you can press without thinking. A Stream Deck button with the "Play Audio" (Soundboard) action works great. Other options: a hotkey in your soundboard app, streamdeck, autohotkey script, or other app!.
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Route the beep to its own track, in your sound mixer
In your recording software (e.g. OBS), send the beep's audio output to a separate audio track that nothing else records to. In OBS: add the beep output as an audio source, then in Advanced Audio Properties assign it to its own track (and enable that track in your recording output settings).
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Record and beep away
Whenever a marker-worthy moment happens, press your hot key. Keep recording as normal; the beeps quietly pile up on their own track.
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Point Footage Reviewer at the beep track
Import your footage, open Setup, and choose your beep track under Beep marker track. The choice is saved per project, and a "B" button appears on that track in the timeline.
The full step-by-step guide
Every click, with a screenshot for each step, covering Wave Link, OBS, Stream Deck, SoundPad, Beacn, and Footage Reviewer itself. Prefer paper or offline? Grab the PDF version.
The interactive guide is not available right now; use the PDF download above.
Using beep markers during review
- Press B (or click the "B" button on the track) to jump the playhead to the next beep. Tap it repeatedly to hop between every marked moment.
- Use the Auto Beeps button in the keystones panel to scan the whole timeline and create a marker at every beep automatically. Beeps that already have a marker nearby are skipped, so it is safe to run again after importing more footage.
- Rename the auto-created "Beep" markers into real notes as you review, then export them as Markdown, CSV, EDL, or XML for your editor.
If something is off
"No beeps found on the beep track"
Check that you selected the right track under Setup, and that the beeps actually recorded onto it (solo the track and listen). If the beep volume is extremely low, raise the beep source volume in your hot-key software next time.
It detects markers where there is no beep
The detector treats any audio on the beep track as a marker. Make sure no microphone or desktop audio bleeds into that track; it must be silent except for the beeps.
Can I use my own sound instead of the provided beep?
Yes. Detection is based on audio presence on the track, not the specific sound, so any short, clean sound works. The provided beep is just a known-good option.
Try it on your next shoot
The free version includes beep markers and everything else, up to 95 minutes of footage per project.