Now in Beta: Hide Audio Channel Labels in the Timeline

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February 5, 2026
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Hey everyone! We’re excited to share a small but impactful quality-of-life update that just landed in Premiere Beta 26.2 (Build 14). You can now hide clip audio channel labels directly in the timeline.

This update is all about giving you more control over how dense or minimal you want your timeline to feel, especially when working with multichannel audio or complex sequences.

What’s New?

You can now toggle the visibility of audio channel labels on clips in the timeline. When hidden, the timeline becomes cleaner and easier to scan, helping you focus on the waveform itself rather than extra overlays.

This is particularly useful when:

Working with multichannel clips
Editing dense timelines
Reading waveforms at a glance without obstruction

Where to find it

The new option lives in the Timeline wrench menu.

You can toggle Show/Hide Audio Channel Labels on or off at any time, depending on your workflow and the level of detail you need in the moment.

Bonus: This action can also be assigned to a custom keyboard shortcut, making it easy to toggle instantly without breaking your editing flow.

Why this matters

Audio channel labels are helpful, but they are not always needed. This preference lets you decide when they add value and when they get in the way. With this update, you can:

Keep the timeline visually clean when working with complex audio setups
Improve waveform readability in tight or stacked edits
Reduce visual noise in dense sequences
Toggle the behavior instantly without changing your audio setup

Try It Out

This feature is now available and we’d love for you to give it a try. As always, your feedback helps us fine-tune these quality-of-life improvements.

Happy editing!

feature request

R

Ruslan_Isaev_Editor

Inspiring

May this function is showing real audio names? For example, sound designer on set rename each tracks, for example,
audio track 1 - Boom
audio track 2 - Judy
audio track 3 - John
ect. Like DaVinci doing and Avid MC?

A

Adolfo H.

Author

Community Manager

This feature doesn’t handle the ixml data integration as part of the clip name, but this is something that the team is looking into. I’ll send an update as soon as I can regarding your point above.

M

MerlinVDB

Participant

Thank you! I can see a lot of situations where this will be useful. Good instinct to allow a keyboard shortcut as well. Makes it extra useful for people who have a stream deck or some other control surface.

A question in the margin of this: are there any plans for developing the possibilty of displaying iXML metadata on the timeline?

For us traditional media creators (broadcast, TV, film) it’s a super common thing to have this kind of metadata embedded in multichannel audio (allowing us to see channels tagged as lavaliers, booms, etc.). Premiere can already see it somewhere deep down in the metadata panel, but there is no current way of displaying it on the timeline clips (which is where it would be most useful).

Totally understand if this isn’t the right thread to ask about it (it has been feature requested somewhere else on this community before). But it is a somewhat related thing I am very curious about.

Thanks a bunch and keep up the good work!