[Jason Moore]

UPDATE: User error / lack of documentation. As it turns out, you cannot have duplicate audio track names. I wanted 10 tracks all labeled “Dialog”. But when clicking away (to another sequence) and clicking back, tracks 2-10 would revert back to “Audio”, with track 1 keeping the “Dialog” label. Through trial and error I discovered that by naming each track discretely, the names would stick. So now I have “Dialog 1”, “Dialog 2”, “Dialog 3”, etc. That fixed the problem. Works in any workspace, custom or default.

Freelance director of commercials, film, television and a professor at Brooklyn College, New York

[Jason Moore]

Thanks for the reply Andy. I will try your suggestion and report my findings tomorrow as I’m leaving the office for the day. I am not using any custom track presets that I know of, but honestly I’m not super familiar with that exact concept/term. I’ll get back and thanks again for the response, this is driving me crazy.

Freelance director of commercials, film, television and a professor at Brooklyn College, New York

[Jason Moore]

Just following up on this. I tried the copy/paste attributes workaround for an hour, it didn’t work for me. A lot of clicking and fussing and just not efficient at all. Hopefully Adobe will address this in a software update soon.

Freelance director of commercials, film, television and a professor at Brooklyn College, New York

[Jason Moore]

Thanks Jeff,

I’m just sitting down to start a session, so I’m going to try your suggestion for a few hours and see how it feels. Will report back here soon.

In the meantime, does anyone happen to have a link handy for submitting feature requests to Adobe? One thing I am digging about the CC subscription model is that they are updating Premiere regularly and since I don’t have any choice, I get all the updates. So you never know: if enough of us request this, perhaps it will get addressed. To folks like Shane and myself and I suspect thousands of others, editing multi-track audio is an integral part of the early editing stages – not just sound designing and mixing. We need this basic functionality.

Freelance director of commercials, film, television and a professor at Brooklyn College, New York

[Jason Moore]

Thanks Shane, that’s a real bummer. I’ll look for a link for a feature request and at least lend a voice to this issue. BTW I’d like to quickly say I’ve read dozens of your posts on this forum and have also read a ton of stuff on your blog. Thanks for so many great contributions, including this reply.

Jason

Freelance director of commercials, film, television and a professor at Brooklyn College, New York