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Easily swap the track arrangement (shifting tracks up or down)

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January 7, 2020
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Hey all,

Is there a way to shift an entire track up or down placing them in the order or arrangement you want?

I want to be able to grab V1 and move it to where V3 is, so that it's above the other footage on V2.

Or grab A6 and pull it up to A2, Making old A6 now A2, and previous A2 is now A3.

Curently (as far as I know) you have to highlight all the clips on the track and bump them up when highlighted.

2 problems accure, if you bump up and land on the track above it will overwrite the clips above, or if you unlink the audio video you may misalign sound from video.

How is this not a feature? When I started out 15 years ago with Sony Vegas, it was available. 15 years later I still can't do that in Premiere, or am I missing something?

Correct answer Ann Bens

Select Track Selection Forward Tool (A).

Hold down Ctrl and click on first clip

Drag everthing up or down (dont let go of the ctrl) to new empty track.

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salvo34

Inspiring

yeah, but if you're linked to audio when moving video ( and that audio also wants to move when you tell it to via video track selection ( and that link to audio).. then it gets messed up... you could overwrite the audio at that point or push it ... you're right it's complicated... and I think you can go to the far left and move the tracks ( like move V2 up to V1 ? ) but I don't remember really.... I'll open cs6 and see if I can do that...

I don't have new subscription stuff.

🙂

good luck !

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Todd KCCOAuthor

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That's what I'm saying, I want to be able to just click on V1 at the left and highlight the whole V1 track, then click and drag it up or down. It shouldn't even change anything else excet that arrangement. It would be beautiful and quick and eliminate the chances of overwriting clips.

orf94268545

Participant

I completely agree. Would allow for way more precision and efficiency. The ability to cluster Audio channels into categories with click and drag modularity. Any updates?

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salvo34

Inspiring

PPro is a little more sophisticated than vegas IMO. Although I had vegas and liked it OK.

When I first got PPro ( CS3 ? ) I didn't have a motion pic camera, so I used an animation to begin to learn the program. Drew stuff in photoshop and imported layers ( with alpha), and put on different video levels ( tracks)... and got the timing down with music ( one audio track) and added soundFX ( more audio tracks, some overlayed ).

You need that precise control when doing stuff and I think PPro does a good job of letting people find the right workflow for what they are doing.

first edit using CS3

1:40 approx time

a nyc guy follows his nose instead of his brain and this leads to trouble.

https://vimeo.com/383130405

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Todd KCCOAuthor

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Thank you. I should mention that I have been using Adobe Premeire for the last 9 years, so this isn't new to me. (not meant to sound snarky)

I am quite proficient at Premiere and After Effects.

My work pace is increasing all the time and I am always looking to speed up my process.

I chose premeire over FCP because premiere does allow the user much greater freedom on their exprerience.

I also spent 7 years, as an editor for tv using AVID. So Premeire is the preferred choice based on intreface and user experience.

However, there are some things like swapping track arrangement or locking selected clips in place on the timeline or locking markers that Vegas had that would make this experience flawless in my eyes.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

a couple of ways to do this. Lock all video tracks except your source and target track (not necessary but an additional layer of safety) . . Make sure your source video track is on in the patch panel of timeline. Put your playhead on the first frame of the source track and select all clips. Hit command-x (cut all) . Then turn off the source video track in the target part of the patch panel of the timeline. Make sure the target track is the only track selected in track target section of the patch panel of the timeline and hit command-v. Pretty simple. Can give you a few other ways, but this seems the simplest to me. If my language is not clear it's probably not my fault. Happy to send a screen grab to make this clearer if you want.

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Todd KCCOAuthor

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No I totally understand what you are saying. I know that is an option so thank you.

What I'm saying is, I should just be able to click on V1 and drag it to V3. Easy, one manouver.

Why do I have to lock tracks, cut and paste and all that stuff. It should be easy click and drag.

When you have 16 layers of audio or 8 layers of video, with an hour project. It can get very confusion (as you know) when grabing clips and moving them to and from. By grabbing a track and simply moving a track, it eliminates all risk of missing some or writing over some.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

I understand your frustration, but if you make sure your entire
timeline is displayed, and create a new track in the desired position,
lock all but your source and target track, this should be pretty
simple. Gotta say I do this kind of thing all the time.

just saw your latest email, If you lock the audio track before you do
the move it should work fine. You could also turn of linked selection
for the timeline.

Working in 2019, so not sure what works in CS6

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