Drag/Drop Video Without Audio Track?

[Ann Bens]

Not from the bin, only from the Source monitor.

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[Tom Prigge]

To be a little more specific than Ann, in your source monitor you will see a little icon that looks like a strip of film. Grab that icon and drag it to the timeline. That will only bring the video. Likewise, there is a little speaker horn icon next to the film strip. Grabbing that will only bring the audio.

[Erik Mickelson]

You can also just deselect the “target” switches in the timeline. “a1,a2,a3” etc…

This will ensure that only video is brought in. Conversely, it works the same for bringing only audio in. Uncheck the video “target” track and only audio will come in.

Cuz sometimes that’s what you want the timeline to behave like.

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[Paul Neumann]

And if you do bring it in by mistake a simple alt/option click on the track and delete will take care of it.

[Cliff Stephenson]

Actually, it’s fairly easy (as long as you know you won’t need the audio).

From your bin, right click on your track (or tracks, you can do a bunch at once) and select ‘modify’ ‘audio channels’ and then uncheck all of the audio channels you don’t want (presumably you wouldn’t have any checked if you don’t want audio at all). Then when you drag a clip from either the bin or the source window, it’ll bring in video only. But, like everything else, once you do that and drop that clip in the timeline, you won’t be able to change it back. You would have to right click ‘duplicate’ the clip and then you could get audio back on the dup.

But the nice thing is that you can alter/remove audio from every clip at once (again, as long as you haven’t used that clip in the timeline yet. Then, again, you’d have to dup it and remove the audio on the dup.

Make sense?

[Richard Christy]

@ Tom Prigge

Yes, that actually worked pretty much as I wanted it to. The only problem is sometime I don’t always have the Source Monitor open…but this is a workable solution.

@ Erik Mickelson

I can’t find this. I tried deselecting the Audio Tracks in the Timeline but it still brings the audio track in from the bin. I’m using CS4 by the way, not sure if that makes a difference.

@ Cliff Stephenson

I’d like to try this method but when I Right-Click on my footage in the bin, I do not see a “modify audio channels” option. Again, I’m using CS4 so not sure if that makes a difference.

Thanks for the info all!

[Paul Neumann]

On CS5.5 it’s “modify” then another flyout for “audio”. It’s really an elegant solution. Thanks Cliff.

[Richard Christy]

Yes, but I’m using CS4. How do I do that in my version?

[Paul Neumann]

Yeah, I can’t remember back to to CS4 to tell you if it even exists in that version. Sorry.

[Alex Udell]

I’m not sure about the modify approach because that’s a modification of a clip property.

in some instances pulling video only is a case based situation.

going thru the source viewer is probably the best approach.

honestly…

Adobe needs to update the software so that dragging to the timeline always respects that track patching.

What makes this difficult right now is that the sequence relationship for patching is always to the source monitor. It doesn’t “know” about the source you’ve selected in the project panel so the default is simply to override the patching and take everything.

Alex