Locking tracks in Vegas?

[Edward Troxel]

Right-click the first event on that track and select “Select Events to End”. Now right-click that first event again, choose “Switches”, and then choose “Lock”. This locks all events on the track – not specifically the track.

Edward Troxel

[Tevya Washburn]

Thanks man. I guess that works. Kinda strange to me that there doesn’t seem to be a way to just lock a track. Maybe in 7?

Anyway, your method should do just fine, though it’s not quite as easy as just clicking a button or whatever. Thanks again.

–the Fiddler

[Edward Troxel]

You could easily do it via a script (and have a button on the toolbar to do it). A script could easily lock or unlock all events on the selected track(s) giving you a psuedo track locking mechinism.

Edward Troxel

[Tevya Washburn]

That’d be way cool. But I know nothing about scripting, and doubt I’ll have the time to get into it in the near future.

–the Fiddler

[Edward Troxel]

This should do it (I didn’t get a chance to test it, though). You might want to save two versions – this one as “LockSelectedTracks.js” and another one called “UnlockSelectedTracks.js” changing the “dolock” line from true to false.

[pre]
/**
* This script will lock all events on selected tracks
*
* Written By: Edward Troxel
* Copyright 2006 – JETDV Scripts
* Modified: 07-20-2006
**/

import System;
import System.IO;
import System.Windows.Forms;
import Sony.Vegas;

try {
var dolock = true; //Change to FALSE to unlock

//Go through the list of Tracks
var trackEnum = new Enumerator(Vegas.Project.Tracks);
while (!trackEnum.atEnd()) {
var track : Track = Track(trackEnum.item());

if (track.Selected) {
//Go through the list of Events
var eventEnum = new Enumerator(track.Events);
while (!eventEnum.atEnd()) {
var evnt : TrackEvent = TrackEvent(eventEnum.item());

if (dolock) {
evnt.Locked = true;
} else {
evnt.Locked = false;
}

eventEnum.moveNext();
}
}
trackEnum.moveNext();
}

} catch (e) {
MessageBox.Show(e);
}
[/pre]

Edward Troxel

[Edward Troxel]

Ok, the formatting got all mixed up. The file can be downloaded from here:

https://www.jetdv.com/scripts/LockSelectedTracks.js

You would still need to modify that line and save it under a new name for the “unlock” version.

Edward Troxel

[James Redmond]

Edward could you add this to Excalibur? Thanks, James

James Redmond
Dynamic Videos, Inc.
Rogers, AR USA

[Edward Troxel]

Yes. I’ll look at putting both Lock and Unlock in a future version.

Edward Troxel

[Gary Alan]

I also customize the toolbar so the Lock button is always there. I usually lock one or two events temporarily then unlock when done. Easy to click the one button Lock. Or lock a whole track with select events to end like Ed said.

Gary