Edit track appearance

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

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

  1. To hide select the Eye icon (for video) or the Mute icon (for audio) at the left edge of the track.

  2. Each icon is a toggle switch. Select 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 Mute icon (for audio). It 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.)

Expand and resize a track

You can expand a track to display track controls. You can also 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.

  1. To resize the track, position the pointer in the track header area between two tracks so that the height adjustment icon appears.

  2. Drag up or down to resize the track below (for video) or the track above (for audio).

Resize the track header section

  1. To resize the track header section, position the pointer over the right edge of the track header so that the resize icon appears.

  2. 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

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