Adding tracks to a project

You can create empty tracks in a project to serve as placeholders for media that you will add to your project later, or you can create tracks when you add media to the project.

Video tracks are composited together so that upper tracks obscure lower tracks. If a clip includes transparency, lower clips will be visible through the transparent areas.

Adding an empty track

Click the Track button below the timeline and choose New from the menu. A new, empty track is created above the focus track.

Press Ctrl+Shift+N (Windows) or Shift-⌘-N (macOS).

Double-click below the last track header to create a new, empty track.

Adding a media file as a new track

  1. Select the clips you want to use in the Media Browser.

    For more information, see "Finding media."

  2. Click the Media Tools button at the bottom of the Media Browser below the timeline and choose Add selection as tracks from the menu to add the files to new tracks in your project. The new tracks are created at the bottom of the track list.

    A separate track is created for each selected clip, and a clip is created on the timeline for each clip. The clips will begin at the start of the timeline, and the new clips are selected.

    If multiple clips are selected, they will be added to the track in the order they are displayed in the Media Browser.

    Hold Ctrl (Windows) or ⌘ (macOS) while dragging multiple clips from the Media Browser to the timeline to add the clips across tracks.