Is it possible to hide audio tracks ?

[Chocopain2]

Hi, I'm working as assistant editor on a project with an average of 8 audio tracks per video clips. It's pretty annoying to edit with all these audio the editor will never use (He only uses the mixdown track, the 7 others are muted ...). But I need these tracks because a sound mixer will work on it. 
A solution could be to sync at the end of the editing but it's a waste of time. Also, I could merge the audio but it creates a new sequence for each clip and it takes to much time too. 
Is there a way to hide these tracks I know Avid MC easily do that for example. There must be a way to do that, I can't imagine an editor of a feature film works with all the audio tracks...  

(I'm sorry for my english, french here and I'm not comfortable with english). 

[R Neil Haugen]

You can minimize and show/hide tracks in the control for the Timeline panel. Check the Wrench icon and the 3-bar menu icon by each sequence name.

Neil

[andrey_skripnik]

could you please elaborate Neil? I couldn't find it

[R Neil Haugen]

It's in the options in the Timeline panel ... there's two menus to look through.

The Wrench Icon in the sequence header bar, and the three-bar "hamburger" menu on the tab for sequence names. A LOT of useful stuff there, and some of them can have assigned keyboard shortcuts also, if you go to the Keyboard Shorts dialog.

[andrey_skripnik]

I'm pretty convinced there's no option to "show/hide tracks", otherwise I'm just blind

[Richard M Knight]

There's a minimize all tracks, I, also, couldn't see a show/hide tracks.

[R Neil Haugen]

Well, I'm going from memory at the moment. But I've seen plenty of timelines with basically very little space in audio ... I was thinking there was a hide audio tracks, but it's probably just completely minimizing them. And pulling the video track/audio track separator line down.

Richard is a major setter-upper expert around here, so I definitely default to his knowledge. The others would be @Jarle Leirpoll and @PaulMurphy  ...

[Rag and Bone]

Yes Neil, pulling the separator down certainly has that effect. Works for me.

The only issue is I see is that once it's done,. it's not obvious how to restore them to view. The separator becomes pretty inconspicuous.  Might confuse some people. Audition's track management seems more robust.

[R Neil Haugen]

This is one of those things that for those used to grabbing and pulling it down, then pushing it up later, it's ... a background thing, you don't really think about.

Before you get to that point, it's a puzzle or an annoyance ... or both. And after you get to that point, it is still an annoyance at times.

[Jarle Leirpoll]

Unfortunately, it's not possible to hide tracks in Premiere Pro. If you can write (or find) a feature request for this, I'd vote for it.

A far from perfect workaround is to create Track Height Presets where the unneeded tracks are at minimum height, while the tracks you need are at normal height. Bind this to a shortcut with just one key, and you can activate it with the push of a button (key).

Another workflow would be to cut with few tracks, and then add the other tracks at the end, using Match Frame. It's a bit labor intensive, but can be done fairly quickly. I'm sure it could be done with a script too.

[R Neil Haugen]

Although I think we all would wish the information given was different, at least, thanks Jarle for always giving the definitive answer!

Neil