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Im making a music video, and have more than 4 video tracks - so I can't use multicam. Is there a way to automate making tracks visible (enable/disable)? I can't find anything about it in the help file. I'd like to avoid actually removing the unwanted sections - which makes the trackview look like Swiss Cheese!
There's no automated way to do that, so on the main timeline you're
always going to need to either cut out the clips on the bottom to let the higher tracks show ("Swiss Cheese", or more accurately, an inverted bar graph), or to set the opacity on all lower clips to 0 (intact tracks but much more work).
Note that you only need to remove lower tracks than the one you want to see. All clips above the lowest visible track are blocked unless the clip is transparent, is chroma-keyed or is scaled to be smaller than any clips above it.
For example, if you have 6 tracks, take a look at how easy it is to see which is the active track if you cut out the unwanted lower tracks:
It's clear as day that the sequence is 2, 3, 1, 5, 6.
Now here is the
exact same sequence, only instead of removing the unwanted lower tracks, the opacity is set to zero on them:
Can you even tell which clips are enabled/visible?
Here's a zoomed in view of the lower right corner, with the opacity (the thin horizontal grey line on the video thumbnail) highlighted, showing visible clips in green and disabled clips in red:
It would be somewhat easier to see if you turned of the continuous thumbnails, but I'd still use the remove lower tracks method.
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