OpenShot
Activate/Deactivate entire tracks, affecting all clips/etc in those tracks
Have taken a look for existing suggestions, not found any.
Describe the new feature: A toggle for each track to be active or deactivated. Active would be the default and current behavior of OpenShot. A deactivated track would not include any(maybe a filter to control audio/video/both/transitions/effects) of its contents in the preview or export of the entire video. The typical use case would be temporary for the preview, but it would be desirable to also affect exporting too.
Describe the solution you'd like: Tracks have a few options in the dropdown next to them already. Maybe similarly situated(probably not in the dropdown to avoid misclicks causing something permanent when the intent is temporary), but have an ability to activate(default) or deactivate the track itself(and by extension everything in that track, audio/video). Or specifically activate/deactivate rendering for that track. This is useful for fine editing and layering, transitions involving multiple tracks, etc.
Describe alternatives you have considered: Other editing software. Or editing each individual clip in a track to change volume or not display. (Obviously other software would be easy, though undesirable.) Editing each clip in a track would be very tedious, error-prone and have a high probability of screwing up clips.
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Hello @JasonHutton. Thank you for the enhancement suggestion. Please see this: https://trello.com/c/UtNKpw8B/22-mute-disable-whole-tracks. No ETA at this time.
Ah, didn't see that one, thanks. I would point out that one appears to be exclusively audio though. Ideally this functionality should affect video, effects, transitions, audio, etc, all at once or in some filtered subset. (You still want the fundamental quick and easy access to toggle things from enabled/disabled though.)
That is a good point @JasonHutton. The "Technical Notes:" section eludes to doing things to Video as well. When this ticket was submitted, there was a discussion of "what else" can be done. This is all up to the lead developer to review and decide how to move forward.