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Can you condense the amount of tracks on the timeline? (see pic)
Hi, just wondering if anyone knows a way of condensing the tracks down so that they aren’t all staggered like in the pic. (I’ve seen that Pluraleyes 3 can do it). These tracks were added to a multicam sequence using timecode as the sync. I am testing time of day code from a couple of 5D III’s but it puts each clip on a separate track!
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You could drag all the clips into a single track. It doesn’t look like any of the clips overlap.
Greg Jones
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Thanks for reply. I know I can do that and it would work great in this example. Unfortunately this was just a test and the actual project is about 200 files. Would take forever to grab each and drag down 🙁
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If none of the clips overlap, then you can bring them down in batches.
First, zoom out so you can see the entire timeline.
Then drag a selection around the top half of the clips (in the example above that would be the clips on video tracks 6-10
drag all these clips down until the lowest clip hits video 2. Don’t release the mouse!
Hold Shift, this will lock all the video files in place and let you drag up on the linked audio files until the highest one hits audio 1.
Now repeat these steps, to condense everything which is now on video 1-5 to just 1-3
Repeat two more times and you’re done.
This seems like a lot of work but since it’s cumulative the number of drags down increases by the exponents of the next power of two. Or, in simple english, 200 clips should take 8 drags.
JM
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Awesome man great tip. Thanks 🙂
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