Track groups

A segment with forty entities is forty stacked rows. Track groups fold a run of related tracks into one named, collapsible row, so a big timeline reads like a contents page instead of a wall.

What grouping is (and isn't)

A track group is purely organizational. Grouping never changes timing, playback order, or what plays: fold a group away and the segment is identical. Ungrouping deletes nothing either; the member tracks simply return to their section. Think of groups as labels and folding, not as a rig; a group has no transform of its own and no group-level animation.

Making and managing groups

1. Select the track headers you want. ⌘-click to gather several, then right-click and choose New Group from Tracks… (or New Group from Track… for one). Name it after the thing the tracks share: a character, a set piece, a scene beat.

2. Grow or shrink it later. A track header's context menu offers Add to Group and Remove from Group. A track belongs to at most one group, and a group holds tracks from one section only, so a Scene track never files under an Audio group.

3. Manage from the group header. Its context menu has Collapse and Expand (including Collapse All and Expand All), Rename Group…, and Ungroup. There is no Delete, because there's nothing to delete: a group whose members are all gone removes itself.

A group sits at the position of its first member, so grouping never reshuffles a timeline whose shape you've already learned. Collapsed state is saved with the project.

Reading a folded group

Collapsing hides rows, not information. A folded group draws a summary strip: every member clip flattened onto one row at its real time, plus a count like 3 tracks · 12 clips. You can still see the shape of the section's timing at a glance.

Selection keeps working while folded. Clicking a summary clip selects that clip (⌘-click extends), and clicking the group header or the strip's background selects every clip in the group, which makes folded groups a fast way to grab a whole set for a copy or a nudge after expanding. The chevron is the only control that folds and unfolds.