opacity level/track management

[s-audio]

I have a track were I set the opacity level down a bit to be in the background of my text and the Sony checkers generated media.
The track is footage of a race car.

Now I want to use that same track for the rest of my race footage but can't because the opacity level slider is set for my previous footage. Is there a way to set the opacity level back to full on the rest of the clips in this track? Or do I just use another track for the normal clips?
The reason I'd like to do this is to cut down on track usage,If possible. Just the opening of the video has 5 tracks for one scene and makes for alot of scrolling as I add more.

Any ideas to better manage tracks? Maybe combine all the audio portions to one track? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Spot]

Re: opacity level/track management

First, why do you care how many tracks you have? It doesn't put any less of a strain on the CPU if there is no media there.
Second, if you have a single title event that you wish to change the opacity of, simply use a compositing envelope. Think of it as a 'volume' envelope for visible media.
Right click the track header and choose Insert Compositing Envelope. A blue line appears at the top of the track. Double click to insert handles or envelope points. Drag down to desired transparency. Drag back up to desired opacity.

 

[s-audio]

Re: opacity level/track management

Thanks Spot. Thats exactly what I was looking for.

I'm just tring to have a less confusing time line to deal with. I thought cutting down the number of tracks would just be a little easier to handle, Being new to this whole thing.
Just wondering what others do to aviod a gizzilion tracks at the end of a project.