I agree. In fact not only Pinnacle has this but also Power Director. Locking a track though, usually causes problems. I would like to see them include a scroll bar on the left side of the timeline bc when you have a two monitor setup, its a bit of a hassle.

Check out V13 - all your desires (not quite) fulfilled, sans-Script , with the convenient button on the transport control strip ?

Like me, you would like a button on the track header (or at least r-click option) to completely lock everything on that track.

What did the script do ?

geoff

The script would simply lock/unlock the tracks selected when running the script. Simple but yet needed. This is a .js script that I put in the Vegas script menu folder but Vegas does not see it in V12 or V13.

Erik

Actually, the script will lock/unlock all EVENTS on selected tracks.

As you said, it's a simple .js script so I'm not sure why it would not appear in Vegas Pro 12 or 13 as long as it's placed in the Vegas Pro 12/13 "Script Menu" folder. There's nothing complicated about the script to prevent it from working. Here's the script:

LockSelectedTracks.js

/**

 * 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);

}

It could certainly be easily updated to a .cs script and should probably be updated to ask if you prefer to lock or unlock the selected tracks.

Thanks Edward.

I have verified that the scripts are in the Script Menu folder for V12 and V13 and I don't see them still. But I should have pointed out that I don't see any of the .cs or .js scripts. V11 does work. Weird.

Has anyone got this working in V12 or hopefully V13?

Erik

It appears to be showing fine in VP13:

http://www.newbluefx.com/downloads/uploads/LockInVP13.jpg


I placed it in

c:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0\Script Menu

Yes same as me and thanks for the pic. Now I've got to figure out why on my system none of my scripts in the folder show in V13. Seems very odd.

Thanks again,

Erik

hi edward,

just tried it and got this error message:

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0\Script Menu\LockSelectedTracks.js(1) : Syntax error. Write 'var identifier : Type' rather than 'Type identifier' to declare a typed variable

and how do you unlock tracks?

ah. just read, change to 'false' ;-)

Please make sure you copy the whole thing beginning with /** and ending with the last }

It sounds like you started copying after the "Try" line.