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Last updated on Dec 14, 2023

Learn more about excluding, setting, expanding, and resizing tracks in Premiere Pro.

Exclude tracks in a sequence

You can exclude video or audio clips in any track from previews and export. Clips in excluded video tracks appear as black videos in the Program Monitor and in output files. Clips in excluded audio tracks are not output to the Audio Mixer, to the speakers, or to output files.

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Select to hide the Eye icon (for video) or the Mute   icon (for audio) at the left edge of the track. (Each icon is a toggle switch. Select its box again to display the icon and include the track.)

Note:
  • Excluding a track with the Eye icon does not exclude it from outputs. If excluded tracks hold clips that run before or after clips on non-excluded tracks, black video appears before or after the last clips in the non-excluded tracks. To trim this ending black video from the output files, set the In point and Out point as desired in the Export Settings dialog box.
  • To exclude all video or all audio tracks, Shift-click to hide the Eye icon  (for video) or the Mute   icon (for audio). It excludes all tracks of the same type. (Each icon is a toggle switch. Shift-click its box again to display all the icons and include the tracks.)

Set track display

You can customize the tracks in the Timeline panel in several ways. You can expand or collapse tracks to display or hide track controls. Choosing from several display options, you can control how video and audio clips appear on a track. You can change the size of the header area or move the boundary between the video and audio tracks to display more tracks of either type.

Expand and resize a track

You can expand a track to display track controls. Increase the height of a track to better view icons and keyframes or to display larger views of video track thumbnails and audio track waveforms.

To resize the track, position the pointer in the track header area between two tracks so that the height adjustment icon appears. Then, drag up or down to resize the track below (for video) or the track above (for audio).

The image shows the before and after of an expanded track.
You can expand and resize a track. Collapsed tracks always appear at the same height and cannot be resized.

Note:

You can expand an audio track to use the audio fade line for either individual clips in that track or for the entire audio track.

Resize the track header section

To resize the track header section, position the pointer over the right edge of the track header so that the resize icon appears. Then, drag the right edge. The icons at the top of the track header limit its minimum width. The maximum width is about twice the minimum width.

Set the display style of a track

To customize the style of the video track, access the Timeline Display Settings, by selecting the wrench tool on the timeline panel. 

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