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I recently exported a sequence in PP CS6 that had two video tracks. The second track just had some Picture In Picture (PIP) shots. When I exported the sequence into a an .mp4 file, only the first video track was exported. Non of the PIP's from the second video track showed up on the new .mp4 file. Does any body know what may have caused this. I imagine it is something simple as I heve exported many videos with multiple tracks with no issues before.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Thank you for your feed back. I imagine it would be something as simple as that as it seemed to be working fine for me last week. I am new to the software so it is possible that I dissabled the second track without even noticing it. If this would cause the second video track to not show up on an export file then that is probably the problem.
How would I confirm if a particular video track is enabled or disabled? Is it the button that looks like an eye that you enable/disable to view or not veiw the track in the program monitor, or is it a different toggle on/off button?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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