Group audio tracks onto one 'track' on the timeline
I edit television content in Premiere. Invariably, I'll have between 5-10 audio tracks for every single clip. I need to keep them all there so when I do handover to the sound designer, they have everything they need. This is a very, very common situation.
It would help declutter the timeline for people who don't need to be constantly interacting with individual audio tracks.
The problem is when you're editing and you need to manage that many tracks. It clutters up the timeline visually. Premiere needs an option to 'group' multiple audio tracks and 'collapse' them into a single line on the timeline. Hitting that button would then expand them out.
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James Clark
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Yes, I would like this too because sometimes I make or use an audio track on the timeline for organisational reasons, such as being dialogue, or sfx, but also for technical reasons, such as mono or stereo which are important when you're given mono files and want them placed on to mono tracks in a stereo or 5.1 or multichannel timeline. I would like to be able to separate these two different forms of categorisation, technical and organisational. You should still be able to work with the track mixer the same as ever and group using sends the same as ever, this would just be a visual cue for the editor.
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Enno Jacobsen
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Final Cut Pro has this feature. I'd love Adobe Premiere to implement this as well. So many extra clicks for simple actions. Or am I missing something here?
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Roee Myzel
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YES.
That would also mean you can alt-click the one "grouped" audio track and trim it to make J and L cuts that apply to all of the grouped audio tracks. Right now you have to hold alt while selecting all of the audio tracks, release alt, and than trim, which is very slow compared to just alt-clicking on one audio track and than trimming. -
Benjamin de Menil
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This feature would be a game changer. Does anyone know a work around?
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Green Ranger
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Bump
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Per-Erik Holmberg
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Im a non professional semi-expereinced user of Premiere, and searching for just this feature - assuming this would be an obvious allready-implemented-feature in Premiere. Understanding from this thread that it is´nt. So , you got my vote..
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Ladislav Valík
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I cannot agree more... I do a lot of multi-language videos, where majority of the tracks are shared, but some of them need to be localized (infographics, titles, etc.). For the sakes of clarity I prefer to keep the tracks close to each other to keep things organized. Once all the versions are complete, I just toggle the visibility of the appropriate tracks and export a video per language.
Being able to organize tracks into folders (or groups, as they are called in Photoshop) would make things much easier - and would also de-clutter the UI.
I do really call for this feature!
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Amr Tawfik
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I'd like this as well. Mainly for audio tracks but ideally the option for video tracks as well. All tracks would still move and act as if they were not in the group but they would just be in a 'folder of sorts'.