Editing sequences and clips

Set track display

You can customize the tracks in a Timeline panel in several ways. You can expand or collapse tracks to display or hide track controls. Choosing from several display options, you can control how video and audio clips appear on a track. In addition, you can change the size of the header area or move the boundary between the video and audio tracks to display more tracks of either type.

Expand and resize a track

You can expand a track to display track controls. Increase the height of a track to better see icons and keyframes or to display larger views of video track thumbnails and audio track waveforms.

1To expand or collapse a track, click the triangle to the left of the track name.

2To resize the track, position the pointer in the track header area between two tracks so that the height adjustment icon appears, and then drag up or down to resize the track below (for video) or the track above (for audio).

Collapsed tracks always appear at the same height and cannot be resized.

You can expand an audio track to use the audio fade line for either individual clips in that track or for the entire audio track.

Set the display style of the video track

1Expand the track by clicking the triangle next to the track name.

2Click the Set Display Style button at the left corner below the track name, and choose an option from the menu:

Show Head Only Displays a thumbnail image at the beginning of the clips in the expanded track.

Show Frames Displays thumbnail images along the entire duration of the clips in the expanded track. The number of thumbnail frames corresponds to the time units displayed in the time ruler.

Show Name Only Displays the name of clips in the expanded track, without thumbnail images.

Show Head And Tail Displays a thumbnail image at the beginning and end of clips in the expanded track.

Set the default keyframe display of video tracks

You can determine whether new video tracks show all keyframes, hide all keyframes, or show opacity handles, by default when they are created.

1Select Edit >Preferences > General (Windows), or Premiere Pro > Preferences > General (Mac OS).

2In the New Timeline Video Tracks drop-down menu, select the option desired.

3Click OK.

Set the default keyframe display of audio tracks

You can determine whether new audio tracks hide all keyframes, or show Clip Keyframes, Clip Volume, Track Keyframes, or Track Volume, by default when they are created.

1Select Edit >Preferences > General (Windows), or Premiere Pro > Preferences > General (Mac OS).

2In the New Timeline Audio Tracks drop-down menu, select the option desired.

3Click OK.

Set the display style of the audio track

1 Expand the track by clicking the triangle next to the track name.

Last updated 1/16/2012