Works perfect for me - you can download it from my website - extract the folder into your scripts folder and it should work without issue.

Download here

HTH,

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many thanks cliff - now working perfectly!!!

"i've always wondered why there was no lock track....."

The one scenario in which the ease and versatility of editing in Vegas is actually a weakness ! So easy to inadvertently nudge something on an adjacent track.

I've been asking since VA2 or thereabouts.

geoff

"So easy to inadvertently nudge something on an adjacent track."

Mm, add gain, volume and pan envelopes into the conflagration of tracks and it becomes nerve wracking when you know you've nudged something but aren't to sure what. Undo also doesn't undo everything.

One workflow that does help is to use busses. Leave the final mix adjustments until last then with tracks logically assigned to busses add volume envelopes to the buss tracks.

Bob.

Yeah, and Folder Tracks would help too ....

geoff

.. and basic instructions:

http://www.paf.co.nz/VegasScripts.html

geoff

Thank you, thank you and thanks again to Edward for this script. Very useful!! A why didn't I think of that moment?? Also, thanks to Cliff for the very handy download for making this sweet all the way around.

Erik

meanwhile, tried the scripts (in 64bit) and get the following error:

looks like you copied the first line that says: "Code Block". That line is NOT part of the script!

Glad I could help.

A very big THANK YOU and to JetDV from me.
On one current audio project that's reduced my stress level dramatically.
99% of my audio events are QTF'ed so nudging them by mistake is not so easy however moving a Gain Envelope when I meant to move a Volume Envelope is one worry I no longer have.

Bob.

as ever edward, you're right!

now have everything hunky-dory - bloody wonderful.

like bob, i'm not in the least worried any more by 'accidental' nudges to the places where other nudges can't reach.....

as they say down here - you'se a wonder mate!'

In this thread are we regarding Events as Tracks or Tracks as Tracks?

Confused?

Grazie

Tracks as tracks.

The script that works a treat in fact locks all the events on a track. Not exactly the same thing but close enough to make me a happier camper.

Bob.

> in fact locks all the events on a track

Eh? So does that mean that the Track Header is LOCKED in its vertical position? Say Track 5 cannot be promoted or demoted from its position as Track5? Locked in its Present position? But is it also true is that ALL the Events in that same Track are locked too? - If that's the case then I would NOT be able to move Events on that Track, even though the Track was locked "vertically"? - Is that ALSO correct?

Grazie

The events on the track are locked but the track header is not. You can promote or demote the track.

Rob

I use the new Lock/Unlock scripts practically every day and really believe they should become a part of Vegas officially at some point. One caveat though...it has been my experience that if you are rippling tracks that are unlocked, the locked tracks audio envelope points are NOT LOCKED and begin jumping around during rippling!

By rippling I mean the method where you grab an event and pull it forward on the timeline. Every event after that event on the timeline pulls up with that event as expected. When the tracks are locked they do not pull up, also as expected, but the audio envelopes points are jumping all over the place.

Erik

Erik,
I agree with you absolutely. A proper track lock and folder tracks are vital to Vegas going forward, especially in the audio world. The much cheaper competition has them and more.
To be frank if the competition added just one track of video I'd seriously have to consider it for audio projects. The price of admission is peanuts and it looks and works like Vegas (probably due to a lot of input from ex Vegas users) so the learning curve is very mild.

Bob.

So, this means this is an EVENT locking Script and NOT a Track locking Script.

Grazie

Nice and important distinction Grazie.

Thanks - 'cos others/newbies read this stuff and get caught up on the terminology that we sprinkle about - so it's good to keep the definitions/terms in a line . . or rather, on Track, as it were.

Grazie

Sorry Grazie, I thought I answered that but I guess I didn't realize what the emphasis needed to be.

There is no way to lock tracks in Vegas. Since you cannot actually lock the track the track's features (including keyframes) are not locked.

As a work-around, you can lock the events on a track, either manually with a right-click, or in the edit details window, or all at once with a script. Locking an event prevents it from being moved within a track as well as from track to track. It also locks the event's filter and pan/crop settings (but not track motion, of course)

Track locks are standard in most other NLE and compositing tools. People who use those other tools and use their track locking features are a lot less likely to accept Vegas as a viable and serious editing application.

Rob

Cliff,
not a problem ... I understand ...
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At this point, we can lock individual events on an entire track to keep them from being moved in any horizontal manner on the timeline... (with the help of a script).
We cannot lock any track in its position to prevent it from being moved in a vertical manner, correct?
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As in my entire life experience, every time I learn something new, it reminds me of how much I have left to learn ... (wink) ... and how invaluable helpful and sharing friends become ... (grin)
Thanks to all y'all . . .

Until that time... Earl J.