Easy question on Vegas project files

[Danny Hays]

If you all have different login passwords, just move or save the project with media to your desktop or your documents. Other users don’t have access to those folders. Or just save with media to an external drive and keep the drive.

[Fabio Grammatico]

That’s not quite what i meant…
when you create a project Vegas save it as .veg file.In this file there are settings that i don’t want to change.
I want people to use the project but not alterate its content.
any ideas?

[Rob Strobbe]

Each event has a “lock” setting. Right-click one and go to Switches > Lock. To do more than one event, select them all at once and do the same. This doesn’t lock down the entire project — they can still add tracks, insert and edit other media, etc, but they can’t affect the existing ones. And, of course, it’s a simple matter for them to unlock events by reversing what you just did.

Not much other than that within Vegas. You could use Windows itself to make the file read-only; then they could do all they want to the project, but wouldn’t be able to save the changes. And, again, they can reverse this assuming they’re not computer illiterate. 😉 Though more recent versions have better permission control, assuming these others aren’t using your Windows login or administrator accounts. Right-click the VEG in Windows Explorer, choose Properties, and go to the Security tab to alter permissions.

Your last resort would be a third-part program to assign a password to files. I’m guessing some will let you specify a password for saving files but allow free access to open and use them.

Rob