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Originally Posted by JFreak
Yes. The most famous example of this was a bug in Tetris where once you reached 32768 points the score went negative and started to count towards zero.
This is however practically unlimited. It means that for a 3 hour film you can use three markers every second. I would actually want to see such a session...  |
It probably isn’t as unlimited as you think though. Post use a lot of markers. The numerical value can be just as handy to navigate them all, as the sheer quantity. As an arbitrary example, if you had between 1 and 70 markers per scene. Marker 100 to 199 could be shorthand for scene 1, marker 1 through 99. You won’t necessarily use them all, but you’ll have a much easier time navigating them.
An increasing number of places use super sessions now too. You don’t just mix in reels. You have 10 full one hour episodes of an entire Netflix season on the same timeline. Toss in your markers for track visibility, timeline selections for print masters, etc… and it is a lot of markers.
Infinite really is the ideal number, even if you don’t use infinite. You might only use 10,000 but being able to number them beyond 100,000 may well prove useful.