Overlays on the clips in the time line

Hello
I am not sure if there is an answer to my questions but maybe there is a trick i have not discovered as yet. I am having some serious issues with the overlays on the clips in the time line. With the overlays I mean the name of the clip, especially on the audio clips. It is so hard to work good with the audio clip in the time line especially when I want to put in a fade in the beginning or need to move the audio level up or down every time the name of the clip is in the way and i can not see the the waveform. I know I just could put the clip in the viewer and do it from there but in my opinion the viewer is very cumbersome to work with as you do not see the whole clip especially if work zoomed in or have a segmented clip. I find it much easier in the timeline except for the overlays there.
I have written to apple but I guess they do not see a need it would be nice to have the ability to turn it off in preferences

thanks
is that new or was that always there. Not to sure if I have tried that in the past
anyway it helped and will makes things much faster
one other question maybe you have an answer to that too. it seems both Audio tracks are independ when putting on keyframes is there a way when using keyframes in the time line that it affect both channels of audio for example a1 an a2
once again thanks for your help

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