Adobe 25520388 User Guide - Page 144

USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 139 Editing sequences and clips More Help topics "Fixed effects" on page 274 Add tracks New video tracks appear above existing video tracks, and new audio tracks appear below existing audio tracks. Deleting a track removes all clips in the track but does not affect source clips listed in the Project panel. Note: You can add any number of tracks, limited only by your system's resources. 1 With a Timeline panel active, choose Sequence > Add Tracks. 2 In the Add Tracks dialog box, do any of the following: • To add tracks, type, or drag the hot text to, the number of tracks you want to add in the Add field for video, audio, and audio submix tracks. • To specify the placement of added tracks, choose an option from the Placement menu for each type of track added. • To specify the type of audio or submix track you want to add, choose an option from the Track Type menu for audio and audio submix tracks. (For more about audio channel types, see "Audio tracks in a sequence" on page 216.) 3 Click OK. Note: An audio track can accept only audio clips that use the matching channel type-mono, stereo, or 5.1. If you're not sure what kind of audio your clips use, select the clip in the Project panel and read its information in the preview area. You can add a track as you add a clip to the sequence. See "Add a track while adding a clip" on page 176. Andrew Devis shows how to add and remove tracks in this video tutorial on the Creative Cow website. Delete tracks You can delete one or more tracks at a time, whether video or audio. 1 With a Timeline panel active, choose Sequence > Delete Tracks. 2 In the Delete Tracks dialog box, check the box for each type of track you want to delete. 3 For each checked item, specify which tracks you want to delete in its menu. Rename a track 1 Right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) the track's name and choose Rename. 2 Type a new name for the track, and press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS). Specify the tracks to change with Sync Lock You can determine which tracks will be affected when your perform an insert, ripple delete, or ripple trim operation by enabling Sync Lock on those tracks. Tracks which have a clip that is part of the operation will always shift regardless of their sync-lock state, but the other tracks will shift their clip content only if their sync lock is enabled. With an insert edit, for example, if you want all the clips to the right of the edit on Video 1 and Audio 1 to shift to the right while leaving all the clips on Audio 2 in place, enable Sync Lock on Video 1 and Audio 1. ❖ Do one of the following: • To enable Sync Lock for selected tracks, click the Toggle Sync Lock box at the head of each video and audio track you want to be affected by the edit. Last updated 1/16/2012