Premiere Pro CC – Track names?

[David Mcgavran]

[Casey Pegram] “Just fired up the new version and I’m getting settled in. Right away I notice the track names now default to V1, V2, V3 etc. even if I have previously given them specific names.

Does anyone know if there’s a preference to display custom track names? It’s not like I can’t edit without them, but it helped me keep everything nice and neat in edits when I have a lot of layers going on at once and I want to look over at a glance to disable for instance my graphics track or my adjustment layer track etc.

I also kind of miss having the diamond/triangle icon to expand/shrink tracks with one click. Is that a hotkey now? I know I can grab hold of the track handles and expand it, but that’s more of a hassle than clicking the icon.”

So the V1 is the track targeting. Try expanding the track to see the track name. You can customize this with the new customize track header feature (right click on the track header). Instead of the triangle try double clicking the track header. Shift double click to do all tracks. Scroll wheel also works. There are a few videos around for this. There are also track header height presets 🙂

Cheers

Dave

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David McGavran, Adobe Systems Incorporated
Senior Engineering Manager Adobe Premiere Pro
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[Casey Pegram]

Ah, I see it now – thanks Dave!

The scroll wheel integration is pretty slick, as is being able to customize the layout of the track controls.

I also like what they did with eliminating the notion of a ‘work area’ and just using in/out points for renders, but I don’t like the way having an in/out set shades my whole (former) work area.

Actually the color scheme in general is, at least for the moment, less useful to me than in CS6. Why don’t muted tracks have a less gaudy color? I can disable the clips in question, but it’s faster to mute the whole track.

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

You now expand and shrink tracks by double clicking on the blank (at least I think its blank, maybe something shows up in certain situations) spot to the right of the controls for that track.