Moving video tracks around?

Is there a way to click and drag a video track so it becomes a different track #? Like if I wanted track 2 to be track 7.. How would I do that?
Thank you.
-patrick

Experimentation is different. I use special or isolated sequences.
Look in the manul for moving clips from one track to another. It's needlessly confusing, FCP wants to do an insert by default. You need a tricky key combo to move stuff around without duplicating it or inserting it and making everything shift downstream.
Shift-dragging will constrain a clip to vertical movement to upper or lower tracks.
bogiesan

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