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Timeline track needs label color function (I want to color any track)

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
January 28, 2023
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The ease of identifying tracks in the timeline is very important.

In the current situation, instead of the boundary line, I create a thin track.

I also divide the tracks according to the type of telop.

I think it would be very manageable if you could color the tracks.

Furthermore, when using many tracks, it is difficult to understand mute and solo with "switch only".

I'd like to have a net mark like when the track is locked, or a visual cue for the entire track once it changes color.

タイムラインのトラックに、ラベルカラー機能がほしい（任意のトラックに色をつけたい）

・タイムラインのトラックの識別のしやすさはとても重要。

・現状では、わざわざ境界線の代わりに、細いトラックを作成したり、テロップの種類別にトラックを分けたりもする。

・トラックに色がつけられるとても管理しやすくなると思う。

・さらに、トラックを多く使用する時、ミュートやソロが「スイッチだけ」では分かりにくくて困る。

・トラックをロックした時のように網の印をつけたり、色が変わってほしい。

・トラック全体に対してトラック全体にビジュアル的な目印をつけてほしい。

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Tom_edit

Inspiring

current beta

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Dallas5D31

Participating Frequently

It’s hard to believe track colors aren’t a feature in 2026. You can’t even read track names unless the tracks are expanded to a certain minimum size. Clumsily expanding one track at a time to find the one I’m looking for is taxing on time and brain power.

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kes_akalaonu

Adobe Employee

A few things. You can actually have track names on both expanded and minimized tracks if you place your video or audio track name before toggle track output. Also, this feature for track headers is now in Premiere Beta as of build 38 and later. Be advised that it currently doesn’t extend to the whole track but the track headers.

adamograsso

Participating Frequently

It would be great if there was an option to have clips in the track also get auto-labelled to the track's own label colour.

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graceful_fiercenessfa43

Participant

Yes, the track colours are quite helpful

Muhammadshan

Participant

This would be a really useful addition, especially in projects with a large number of video and audio tracks. Being able to identify dialogue, music, effects, titles, and adjustment layers by colour would make the timeline much easier to navigate.

Would people prefer the selected colour to appear across the entire track header, or would a narrow coloured stripe be better so it does not get confused with the label colours already applied to individual clips?

Talentrank

Participant

I think a narrow coloured stripe would work better. It would make each track easy to identify without covering too much of the interface or causing confusion with the colours already used for individual clips.

It would also be helpful if users could choose whether the colour appears only in the track header or extends subtly across the full track.

adamograsso

Participating Frequently

Track grouping would be an amazing addition! We could combine these colour labels with collapsible groups to help keep tracks organised 🔥

mrspieri

Community and Learn @ Adobe

Updated idea statusOpen for Voting→In Development

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Dallas5D31

Participating Frequently

What does this mean? Are you with Adobe? is this feature being added?

Tom Shiny

Participating Frequently

How about stripes? Like the same label colors, but striped or something so it’s more subtle, and looks different from solid colors?

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Recremac

Participating Frequently

It would also be amazing to be able to drag and re-order audio tracks - When working with a lot of layers you sometimes need to reorder tracks to get a better sense of how two tracks interact. In one moment, you may be mixing your dialogue against your music tracks, but then if you've your sound effects tracks several layers down it's much harder to compare them visually with your dialogue tracks.

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Alan30000807nz9o

Participant

I like this idea - like a vertical colour stripe just to the right of the track number - functioning like a light switch too would be nice, as in lighting up in say bright red or green or chosen colour when the track is 'active' and going off when the track is muted or locked ? 🙂

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Konee Rok

Known Participant

Hi, it would make sense to have the default colors be an option, but the control to make them unique. Maybe the timeline colors can be hued differently so they don't blend with the clip colors. This would be a great feature though. Could only help bring distinction to the timeline. All for it.

@KoneeRok

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