hide all the audio tracks

this is connected with another idea I saw where you can collapse tracks for simplicity.

I'm doing TV at the moment and I have 16 audio tracks that are the final ones, locked and forget about them. I'm just dealing with VFX/color.

The Idea is to be able to "LOCK and forget" the tracks, as in, make them disappear, either by making them really tiny or altogether hide the audio editing track altogether. similar to the fairlight page hwere yo dont see the audio tracks.....

Good idea
+1

Folder Tracks would work extremely well for this. When you collapse the parent folder then all of the child audio (or video) tracks are hidden from the project. I would love to see Resolve implement Folder Tracks, not only for organizing but for routing audio (and video) through the parent folder track as well. This would open up so many possibilities for Resolve.

Would much prefer putting them all in a folder than hiding them.


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Would much prefer putting them all in a folder than hiding them.


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I'm not married to any specific way to do it, just a clever way to "hide, release real estate, and dont touch it" will do for me.

I would vote no. Not for the Edit page.

I would vote no. Not for the Edit page.

I vote no for a single "hide all audio tracks" option as well. However, Folder Tracks are commonly used in other DAWs/NLEs to accomplish this same task (showing/hiding tracks) and provides a lot of additional flexibility for organizing and routing. This would be extremely useful in the Edit and Fairlight pages for audio and video tracks.

The Idea is to be able to "LOCK and forget" the tracks, as in, make them disappear, either by making them really tiny or altogether hide the audio editing track altogether. similar to the fairlight page where you dont see the audio tracks.....

I think that's a good idea: a SHOW / HIDE TRACK button where you could highlight all the Audio tracks, hit the HIDE button, and they disappear except for maybe a big red button on the (empty) Audio track selector panel. I'm also annoyed at times when the client brings in a Resolve session with 10-12-16 audio tracks and I'm only dealing with color.

If BMD decide to do the show/hide track thing in the Edit Page, there's really no need for them to reinvent the wheel. They already allow for effective showing and hiding of audio & video tracks, in Fairlight, using the Track Index panel... we have the same panel in the Edit Page now. For consistency alone, that would be the place to do it.

That said, purely as an editor, fully hiding tracks is not a feature I'd personally need or want in the Edit Page. For other tasks I can see why it might seem appealing... but the chaotic mess that unwary editors would get themselves into, moving things around in non-locked cuts (as you do), unaware of hidden tracks (intentional or otherwise) would be a sight to behold.

Moving forward though, given innovations in the Edit Page itself seem few and far between these days, it would be nice if the Edit Page could inherit a bit more hand-me-down functionality from other pages a bit more frequently... for example, the far greater flexibility with handling things like track height in the Fairlight Page would certainly be nice for Edit Page users.

I would vote no. Not for the Edit page.

then don't use it.

You know, "choices", "flexibility" "blah blah blah"......