PremierePro

Work with tracks

The video and audio tracks in the Timeline panel are where you arrange clips, edit them, and add special effects. You can add or remove tracks as needed, rename them, and determine which can be affected by a procedure.

Add tracks

New video tracks appear above existing video tracks, and new audio tracks appear below existing audio tracks. Deleting a track removes all clips in the track but does not affect source clips listed in the Project panel.

Note: You can add any number of tracks, limited only by your system’s resources.
  1. With the Timeline panel active, choose Sequence > Add Tracks.
  2. In the Add Tracks dialog box, do any of the following:

    • To add tracks, type the number of tracks you want to add in the Add field for video, audio, and audio submix tracks.

    • To specify the placement of added tracks, choose an option from the Placement menu for each type of track added.

    • To specify the type of audio track you want to add, choose an option from the Track Type menu for audio and audio submix tracks. (For more about audio channel types, see About audio tracks in a sequence.)

  3. Click OK.
    Note: An audio track can accept only audio clips that use the matching channel type—mono, stereo, or 5.1. If you’re not sure what kind of audio your clips use, select the clip in the Project panel and read its information in the preview area.
    You can add a track as you add a clip to the sequence. See Add a track while adding a clip.

Delete tracks

  1. Click in the track header area to select the track you want to delete. You can target one video and one audio track at a time.
  2. With the Timeline panel active, choose Sequence > Delete Tracks.
  3. In the Delete Tracks dialog box, check the box for each type of track you want to delete.
  4. For each checked item, specify which tracks you want to delete in the pop‑up menu.

Rename a track

  1. Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) the track's name and choose Rename.
  2. Type a new name for the track, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).

Lock and unlock tracks

Locking an entire track is useful for preventing changes to any clips on that track while you work on other parts of the sequence. In the Timeline panel, a pattern of slashes appears over a locked track. Although clips in a locked track cannot be modified in any way, they are included when you preview or export the sequence. If you want to lock both a video track and a track with corresponding audio, lock each track separately. When you lock a target track, it is no longer the target; source clips cannot be added to the track until you unlock it and target it again.

You can lock a track to prevent it from shifting when you perform insert edits.
  Click to display the Lock icon  next to the track name.
An unlocked track (top) and locked track (bottom)

Exclude tracks in a sequence

You can exclude any track from previews and export. Clips in excluded video tracks do not appear in the Program Monitor. Clips in excluded audio tracks are not output to the Audio Mixer or to the speakers.

 Click to hide the Eye icon  (for video) or the Speaker icon  (for audio) at the left edge of the track. (Each icon is a toggle switch. Click its box again to display the icon and include the track.)
Note: To exclude all video or all audio tracks, Shift‑click to hide the Eye icon  (for video) or the Speaker icon  (for audio). This excludes all tracks of the same type. (Each icon is a toggle switch. Shift‑click its box again to display all the icons and include the tracks.)