I am cutting 2 feature films on Adobe Premiere. I have many video tracks and even more audio tracks. I organize the audio tracks into groups like A1-A11 for DIALOGUE, A12-A13 for ADR, A14-A22 for SFX, and finally a bunchy of tracks for MUSIC. Similarly on the video side, i have various tracks for multicams, overlays, text files, temp graphics, subtitles etc. This is important to keep myself and my AE organized, but also to have things clean when we have picture lock and the films go on to sound mix. With so many tracks in my timeline it can get a little confusing trying to orient yourself and make sure that things are placed on the correct track. I would LOVE to be able to do one of the following: 1) Select a color for a video or audio track that will color the background of that track all the way down the timeline, or 2) set a color for a video or audio track and any clip placed on that track will automatically turn the selected color. This way I can easily see which clips are SFX or Music or Dialogue etc. While you can currently select the color of specific clips, what I am asking for is a bit more nuanced and global. The less real estate you have on your monitors, the even more necessary this request is. Hope other people need this in their life too! Avid already has this function (and we cannot let them win!)
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