Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 - Manual (Page 193)

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Click to hide the Eye icon (for video) or the Speaker icon (for audio) at the left edge of the track. (Each icon is a toggle switch. Click its box
again to display the icon and include the track.)
Note: To exclude all video or all audio tracks, Shift-click to hide the Eye icon
(for video) or the Speaker icon (for audio). This 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 a 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. In addition, 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 see icons and keyframes or to display larger views of
video track thumbnails and audio track waveforms.
1. To expand or collapse a track, click the triangle to the left of the track name.
2. To resize the track, position the pointer in the track header area between two tracks so that the height adjustment icon appears, and then
drag up or down to resize the track below (for video) or the track above (for audio).
Collapsed tracks always appear at the same height and cannot be resized.
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.
Set the display style of the video track
1. Expand the track by clicking the triangle next to the track name.
2. Click the Set Display Style button at the left corner below the track name, and choose an option from the menu:
Show Head Only Displays a thumbnail image at the beginning of the clips in the expanded track.
Show Frames Displays thumbnail images along the entire duration of the clips in the expanded track. The number of thumbnail frames
corresponds to the time units displayed in the time ruler.
Show Name Only Displays the name of clips in the expanded track, without thumbnail images.
Show Head And Tail Displays a thumbnail image at the beginning and end of clips in the expanded track.
Set the default keyframe display of video tracks
You can determine whether new video tracks show all keyframes, hide all keyframes, or show opacity handles, by default when they are created.
1. Select Edit >Preferences > General (Windows), or Premiere Pro > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
2. In the New Timeline Video Tracks drop-down menu, select the option desired.
3. Click OK.
Set the default keyframe display of audio tracks
You can determine whether new audio tracks hide all keyframes, or show Clip Keyframes, Clip Volume, Track Keyframes, or Track Volume, by
default when they are created.
1. Select Edit >Preferences > General (Windows), or Premiere Pro > Preferences > General (Mac OS).
2. In the New Timeline Audio Tracks drop-down menu, select the option desired.
3. Click OK.
Set the display style of the audio track
1. Expand the track by clicking the triangle next to the track name.
2. Click the Set Display Style button , and choose an option from the menu:
Show Waveform Displays audio waveforms in clips.
Show Name Only Displays the name of audio clips without waveforms.
Note: For information about viewing and adjusting keyframes in video and audio tracks, see View keyframes and graphs.
Resize the track header section
Position the pointer over the right edge of the track header (where track names are listed) so that the resize icon appears, and 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.
Adjust visible area of video and audio tracks
1. Either in the track header area on the left or between the scroll bars on the right, position the pointer between the Video 1 and Audio 1
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