Track Locking

Abihider wrote on 2/7/2015, 10:50 AM

My background is both video and audio editing. I use ProTools and love Vegas Pro BUT, does Vegas Pro have a Track Locking feature?

It seems so simple and basic I hesitate to mention it, but have not been able to find this in my searches.

Once you finish a basic edit you want to lock your edits and then go back to drop in cover shots. Is there ANY way to do this?

Thanks
George

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OldSmoke wrote on 2/7/2015, 11:29 AM

You can lock event(s) but you cant lock a track; not to my knowledge.

Abihider wrote on 2/7/2015, 11:39 AM

From what I've seen you can group tracks together. AND you can create a event group (i.e. Title and clip). But i have yet to figure out where you can lock events to each other and to a position on the timeline.

If you can, Please point me to where you can lock events.

Thanks

xberk wrote on 2/7/2015, 11:47 AM

There is no way to lock a track --- but you can select all the events on a track, right click, select switches and then lock. This will lock all the events in place, effectively locking that track.

OldSmoke wrote on 2/7/2015, 11:53 AM

There is button in VP13 in the bottom toolbar that looks like a lock which has the same function as right click and select lock.

Also, if you double click an event it will create a loop region and the length of the region is displayed in the lower right corner. There are also 3rd party scripts/extensions that will show the length.

Abihider wrote on 2/7/2015, 11:55 AM

Xberk,

Thanks, I will try working with that to see how it functions.

The more I work with other programs (and I love Vegas Pro... well 90%), the more I'm impressed with the elegance and ease of ProTools.

Abihider wrote on 2/7/2015, 11:56 AM

Thanks for the input.

Unfortunately we bring our conceived notions from how other programs work. I never thought of double clicking on an event.

Thanks again.

Geoff_Wood wrote on 2/7/2015, 6:55 PM

".... the elegance and ease of Protools" ?!!!! That's not a phrase you hear very often !

But the Track Lock thing is a glaring omission from Vegas, and a feature that I have been begging for for possibly over a decade !

geoff

Geoff_Wood wrote on 2/7/2015, 7:00 PM

Um that would be the "Ignore Event Grouping" one, or the "Lock Envelopes To Events" ?

geoff

rraud wrote on 2/8/2015, 10:53 AM

"the elegance and ease of Protools" ?!!!! That's not a phrase you hear very often !"
At least not on planet earth, where it's often refereed to as "SloTools".