Track Groups: A Cleaner, More Organised Timeline

Premiere Pro’s timeline can get very crowded very quickly, especially on complex edits.

I’d love to see a Track Groups system that lets us:

• Group audio tracks together, such as Dialogue, SFX, Music, etc.
• Collapse groups to reclaim valuable vertical space in the timeline.
• Apply effects to an entire group, rather than having to apply them clip-by-clip.
• Extend the same grouping functionality to video tracks for graphics, adjustment layers, B-roll, etc.

The key point is that grouping would be organisational, not a change to the underlying audio/video routing. It would simply give editors a cleaner way to manage complex timelines without changing how the timeline actually works.

Ableton Live and Final Cut Pro already demonstrate how useful track grouping can be. Bringing a similar workflow to Premiere Pro would be a huge quality-of-life improvement for editors working on complex timelines.

Adobe, please give us Track Groups. 🙏

P.S. Apologies for the AI-generated mockup! It was simply the quickest way to visualise what I had in mind.