Time line track colors

kentm wrote on 7/17/2006, 4:32 PM
Does anyone know if there is a designed meaning to the various background colors of the tracks? I get a green background for a selected clip either audio or video and the background seems to be white when not selected. But now I have one that turned a pink/salmon color and stays that way. Is there any published significance to these colors?
Tech support could not answer the question.
kentm

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ritsmer wrote on 7/18/2006, 4:20 AM
The color assigned to a track has no meaning at all.
VMS just assigns a color to a new track as it creates it in order to help organizing a multitrack project.
As you know, it is easy to change the colors - right click the track list or choose Track Display Color from the shortcut menu.
kentm wrote on 7/18/2006, 7:02 AM
Thanks for the info. I had never paid any attention to the track colors before. It came to light in a recent session when a track turned a different color when I "selected" it. It appears that the actual color of the track is selected at random depending on what other colors are currently in use. The selection you make in the track list just decides that the actual color will be something else not currently in use. I should forward this to the tech support folks as they were clueless and started sending me on a wild goose chase about different "codecs" etc.

kentm
volzjr wrote on 7/20/2006, 6:19 AM
Just a FYI.... When a video clip on the timeline is ungrouped (so the clip's video and audio are seperated, and can be moved independently), and then either the video or the audio are moved so that the sound is no longer synchronized with the video, both parts of the clip will turn a pink color to denote this un-synced condition. They can be automatically synchronized by right-clicking the clip and choosing "Synchronize". I think the original question here was referring to the user-selectable track colors, but when I first read it I thought it was talking about the clip changing to a pink color, so I thought I would post this "just in case".
kentm wrote on 7/22/2006, 12:46 PM
Actually, you hit the nail on the head. That is exactly what I was looking for and now that makes sense. My question had nothing to do with the arbitrary color settings in the far left area of the track. This color change meant something in the time line and you have provided the answer. The situation came up with something that I did and unlocking the audio had to be what it was. I seldom do that on most clips but I recall that is what happened.
Thanks