Moving Tracks Up Or Down?

Is it possible to move a track up or down? I have a video with many tracks and I've been using the fact that the top-most track has precedence. Now I want to make a track lower on the list the top-most. Is it possible to move it to the top or does one have to create a new track and move all the clips up there?
TIA,
---JC

JC,
Is there a way to see the 'real' track number along side the track -name-? I rename my tracks 'Narrator', 'Wideshot', etc. but then when adding new tracks, the tracks are referred to by their -number-. I wish I could see -both- side by side so when I add a track I know where it's going without having to count the track #s.
Not that I am aware of. I also rename all of my Tracks, especially my Audio Tracks. You might want to rethink your naming convention, and say do "1 Camera 01," etc. That would get your number out front, so you do not have to expand the Track header to see it all. I do similar with my Audio Tracks, as I find them more difficult to keep a handle on. For me, it's AV Audio 01, SFX Mono 01, SFX Mono 02, SFX Stereo 01, Music Front 01, etc.
Video Tracks are often left with just the PrPro Track numbers, until I get to Track Matte, or Lower Third 01 Titles.
Just remember that the Track numbers in PrPro go up from the bottom for Video Tracks and down from the top for Audio Tracks. When you do go to Add Tracks, look at the drop-down menu for positions relative to the targeted Track.
Good luck, and sorry that there's now a really easy way to do much of this.
Hunt

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So easy to do in PS AE etc, but a real mystery in PP...
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But that is ridiculous. Moving tracks or layers is standard practice in so much other software.
I assume you're talking about software like After Effects or Photoshop, which contain "layers" and not "tracks" in the way that Premiere Pro, and any other editor for that matter, have them . Perhaps it's a semantic difference, but it's an important one: in Adobe software, a "layer" contains one and only one footage item or graphical element, whereas a "track" can contain one or more footage items or graphical elements. In After Effects, you HAVE to seperate footage items by both time (X-axis) and stacking order (Y-axis)--that's simply how it works. However, with Premiere, you only necessarily have to seperate footage items by time (X-axis)--if you can do everything on one track, so be it.
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How disappointing - and a shame the project is too long for AE!
Why is it too long for AE? After Effects has something like a 3 or 4-hour limit to a comp, which I imagine would be pretty difficult for most people to exceed. It would be a bit of a pain to manage, I suppose, but you could do it.
Alternately, if you've got the suite and therefore Dynamic Link, just select the clips in the section of timeline you're trying to work with, and select Replace with After Effects Composition. That chunk of timeline will be sent to AE and the clips will be stacked as individual layers in the same order they're in in the PPro sequence. From there, you can organize and reorganize things to your heart's content, and that will be reflected in your PPro sequence. You may want to consider creating nested sequences in PPro first, because those will be recreated in your AE comp as nested precomps. Might make layer management a bit more friendly.

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-Reg.
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If any one can help I would be grateful,
-Reg

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