Switching on a some track in the timeline

Hi, all.
Does somebody know how to activate specific track in the timeline (for editing etc), that playhedad didn't have changes on that timeline.
normally, that would enable a track, you must necessary click it with mouse on it but as you do it, playhead position was changed to position where you press mouse button.
how to overcome that moment.
Can't find it in help.
Thanks.

Rightly I should have selected the option in the original post 'I have this question too'. But, I did not do it because I did not understand the question in the first place. After reading your reply and the glee with which it was acknowledged, I realized that I too had this 'problem'.
Thanks Tom.

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My neighbor (whom, incidentally, I convinced to go with Premiere CS5.5 as his NLE of choice in the wake of the FCPX uncertainty) is working on a "reality-style" project where they have a massive amount of cameras running simultaniouisly for hour upon hours on end. Think Big Brother House style.
Essentially for each hour of the footage, he is creating a project in which all the multiple camera footage (MOV) from that hour is listed/linked over in the project panel. For example, for HOUR ONE he has the footage from all 20 cameras (or whatever) for hour one listed there.
BASICALLY what he wants to be able to do is grab ALL the footage from those various cameras AT ONCE, DRAG them over to the timeline and when he drops them there, the video (and, inversely, the audio) clips STACK vertically, one on top of the other, each one taking its own track in the timeline.
Currently, of course, when he does this the footage arranges itself in the timeline end to end. In the case of my HOUR ONE, 20 CAMERA example, this basically creates a 20 hour long clip, as oppossed to a one hour clip with 20 tracks, stacked one on top of the other.
As near as we can tell, there's no keyboard shortcut to make this happen. I VAGUELY recall being able to do this in FCP (maybe?) so I'll be stunned and more than just a little bit disappointed to if there isn't SOME way to pull this off in Premeire.
Does anybody have any idea if this mode of automatically dropping clips into the timeline as stacked tracks is possible? It will, quite literally, save him hours and hours of work if he can figure out the secret. And I won't feel quite so guilty for having turned him onto Premiere for this specific project!
And if anyone knows for a fact this is NOT possible, that would be great to know as well. At least we can put the notion to bed one way or another.
Thanks in advance.
Regards, Michael

You can do this with the make multi-camera source sequence command in Premiere Pro CS6 (note that this was posted before CS6 was launched):
Mark the clips
Select the clips
Choose Clip > Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence
Choose the style of synchronization and click OK
Right click on Multi-Camera source sequence and choose > Open in Timeline.
Clips are now stacked up inside of a sequence
More here: http://helpx.adobe.com/content/help/en/premiere-pro/using/editing-multi-camera-sequences1. html#source_sequence_for_multi_camera_editing

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Cause in logic pro I know that I zoom either in and out regions in the timeline... But in garageband I'm able only to make an horizontal zoom... Enlarge vertically the tracks could help me a lot when work with the automation curves.
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FranzFromFar wrote:
Is it possible, in garageband '11, to zoom vertically the tracks in the timeline? Or only horizontally?
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One thing I've always wondered but never asked here is if there's a way in Premiere to drag a clip up (or down) tracks and force the timeline to scroll up with the clip? In FCP as well as in Premiere, if you drag a clip within the timeline to the left or right beyond what is currently showing on the timeline, the timeline scrolls to the left or right almost like when you drag an app on your phone from one screen to the next...go to the edge and the page scrolls with you. But in Premiere (unlike FCP), if you try to move a clip up or down to a track that's outside of what is currently showing on the timeline, the timeline does not scroll up or down to show the additional tracks. Is there a preference or another way to enable this?
Many of my projects have 8 or 9 video and audio tracks BUT usually only around 4 or 5 video and audio tracks are showing at a time. If I needed to drag a clip from track #1 to track #8 I'd have to drag it up to an open area, drop it, scroll up (or down for audio) and then drag again to the open track #8. In FCP, the timeline would scroll up or down just like it does when you force a clip all the way left or all the way to the right.
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trying to burn dvd of my vacation and imported the clips from the camera into imovie. worked great. i imported my audio into garageband to add some filters, compression and eq, and imported it back into imovie as a separate track. then, i muted the origional audio track from the camera. still great. now, i need to trim some clips because idvd says my movie too long to burn on a single-layer disc. not great, *****! so, then i went back to imovie and trimmed a clip and now the audio that is after the trimmed track is totally out of sync. really really *****!!!! it turns out that imovie only trimmed the video and left my second audio track alone. WHY??? ***!!! does anyone know how to trim clips so that imovie trims all the tracks? do you hold down 'shift' or 'option' or something??? there must be a way to do it. HELP!!! god, i hope i can burn this disc sometime in 2007.

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