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■ WORKING WITH TRACKS: TRACK PANEL SELECTORS
Locking Tracks
You can also use that same left minipanel as an indicator that tracks are locked.
Locking tracks is something you may want to do once you’re pretty well satisfied
with your sequence. There are a lot of things that can happen when the tracks are not
locked:
•
A meddling assistant editor unknowingly uses your cut sequence as “edit practice.
”
• Timeline editing is turned on and you accidentally have grabbed clips and moved
them, only to discover this after restarting the computer.
• Audio keyframes get moved by scraping the mouse across the Timeline (that
one’s for the Xpress Pro users!).
• A snoopy editor (not Snoopy editor—he’s a dog and cannot edit) takes a look at
what you’re doing and accidentally “improves” it. Multiple editors on a single
system make for all kinds of interesting cases, and although Avid has tried hard
to ensure that some of these things do not happen, they somehow still do.
For instances like these, and oh so many more, Avid made sure that locking
tracks is simple and allows for a little peace of mind.
To lock a track, do the following:
1. Click the track to be locked.
2. Next, select Clip > Lock Track.
3. The track is locked (see Figure 4.11).
Figure 4.11 (left) Track lock-
ing is on; (right) it’s off.
Note: Here’s a shortcut for sync track lovers:You can quickly turn sync locks on or off for all tracks by
mouse-clicking the Sync Locks panel next to the timecode track.
Figure 4.10 (left) Sync locks
are on;(right) they’re off.
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