It would be amazing to simply grab a track and move it up or down in the order of the sequence. This was something I could do easily back when I used Vegas Pro. Occasionally, I have big, complex sequences and would like to reorder the tracks for organization purposes or for shipping off to audio master. Thanks!
I'm STUNNED to find the internet has at least 13 years of complaints for Adobe to implement a simple Move Track Up or Move Track Down like their FREE competitor DaVinci Resolve. Unbelievable.
Seriously? This still isn't implemented after I asked to have this functionality back in 2009!? Holy crap, Adobe, this is such a simple thing to implement and it's a function available in almost every one of your other products.
We should be able to drag and drop tracks to reorder them! It ruins the workflow to have to copy and paste track elements into new tracks simply to change their order!
I wonder - between Premiere's millions of users, over years of usage - how many millions of hours are collectively wasted by users due to this lack of a basic feature, let alone Premiere's other shortcomings.
I also wonder why companies like Adobe aren't held - or don't hold themselves - liable for this colossal waste of time, creative energy and money.
I would like to add my vote to this. It is possible to do this in an extremely clumsy way: create a new track in the position you want to move the existing track to, use Shift-Track Select to select the contents of the track you want to move, copy the track and paste it into the new empty track (be sure to set the track targeting so it lands on the new track (alas, track targeting is another very clumsy "feature"), and delete the old track. Even though there is a way to do this, the interface needs to be fixed. Simple, obvious things like this should be simple and obvious - that is rule number one of a good interface. Not doing this sort of interface upkeep will slowly but surely make Premiere Pro a clunky, out-of-date program that existing users find increasingly annoying and new users avoid (if simple things are a pain in the butt, and the company has given up on making the program friendly to users, you would be a fool not to look for alternatives). Also, many of your new users are students, and it is getting harder to explain to them why such an expensive program can't do simple things simply when every free phone app in the world can.This sort of neglect is a shame, in many ways Premiere Pro is a great editing program and it has a truly great ecosystem around it (After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Audition, Media Encoder).
This needs to happen! I come from a Logic Pro background this feature is so helpful! I have come across a bug in Premiere Pro when audio tracks decided to just mute themselves, and the only workaround is to create a new audio track and copy the audio clips onto that. The problem comes when I have to send sequences to airspeed...our workflow requires atmos on track 2, but I can't simply move this audio track up in the audio track layers to where it needs to be! Such a simple feature would be a saviour!
After years of using Davinci Resolve, and needing to use Premiere Pro for a project that requires compatibility with other studios, I just noticed that this is not possible in PP. How can this be?!
Adobe, for all that is holy, please take care of this feature...too many people have asked for it for too long!
I'd just like to add that BlackMagic & Davinci Resolve are killing it. I've only dabbled in Resolve, but it really is looking like a good permanent option. Especially for freelance editors.
Strange roadblocks such as unmovable tracks will turn people away from Premiere and Adobe. Professionals and novices alike.
We do understand that creating these kinds of features in software with old and baked-in code can be problematic, but perhaps what Adobe needs is to build a new (and separate) version of Premiere from scratch to make a less buggy and modern NLE. Imagine if Adobe came at BlackMagic with a new NLE (one that is familiar to Premiere users) and it's modern design and features crushed the old Premiere? That'd be incredible.
Found this thread because I was shocked I couldn't find a way to move tracks around. I'm a Davinci Resolve user primarily, but take over edits from my colleagues who use Premiere from time to time. This is one more way I can show them how easy life can be in Resolve. Come on, Adobe - This is way too simple, and way too frequently needed to not have a solution!
Vegas pro and Vegas Movie Studio still have this easy option. Perhaps Adobe cannot work out how its done, or lost interest in their fan base.
Come on Adobe, I still use the product like tens of thousands of other premiere elements users. Is it that hard to change that it is not possible to do? If there was a will I am sure there would be a way to deliver this feature.
It's maddening that this still hasn't been addressed. This simple but HIGHLY useful feature has been available in Vegas for years. Does Adobe even read these?
Adobe is turning into Apple and they do what they want, not what the customer wants. It makes no sense for them to do this, even if there's 2000 people begging them to do it. Too much work and not needed, since they've never experienced what some of us who have via Vegas Pro. I'm looking into alternatives as well from Black Magic.
In light of this and so many other unaddressed issues, I made the switch to Resolve over 2 years ago and have never looked back. It's been a boon for my sanity as an editor not to have to grapple with Premiere's sloppy engineering on a daily basis. I'm producing creative training content that includes other Adobe software such as Photoshop and After Effects, but Premiere takes the cake as the most annoying NLE on the market. If someone asks about Premiere, I tell them to avoid it like the plague. Judging by Adobe's falling stock price, it's clear they've rested on their laurels for far too long. Perhaps it would be a good choice of company direction to listen to the people who actually pay for their software?
I do a lot of post-editing of Zoom files from meetings with 20+ attendees. Zoom now provides ISO Audio (one track per attendee), and I drag them over to a separate sequence, then drag that sequence over to the main video sequence. Since the audio tracks are in order of "entry into the meeting" time, I want to be able to drag the main speakers to the top. I KNOW it's possible to "add track", "drag track", "delete empty track"... but what a pain! Please... SOME command or keystroke combination for "drag this track in between two other tracks".
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