Edit track appearance

Learn more about excluding, setting, expanding, and resizing tracks in Premiere Pro.

Exclude tracks in a sequence

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

• Tint wheels: Adjust the tint values in the shadows and highlights using the Shadow Tint and Highlight Tint wheels. Wheels with empty centers indicate that nothing has been applied. To apply the tint, select the middle of the wheel and drag the cursor to fill in the wheels.

Select to hide the Eye icon (for video) or the Mute   icon (for audio) at the left edge of the track. (Each icon is a toggle switch. Select its box again to display the icon and include the track.)

Set track display

You can customize the tracks in the 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. 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 view icons and keyframes or to display larger views of video track thumbnails and audio track waveforms.

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

Resize the track header section

To resize the track header section, position the pointer over the right edge of the track header so that the resize icon appears. Then, drag the right edge. The icons at the top of the track header limit its minimum width. The maximum width is about twice the minimum width.

Set the display style of a track

To customize the style of the video track, access the Timeline Display Settings, by selecting the wrench tool on the timeline panel.