Track Lock to prevent changes

Track Lock to prevent changesLearn about how to track lock to prevent changes in Premiere Pro.

Locking an entire track is useful for preventing changes to any clips on that track while you work on other parts of the sequence. In the Timeline panel, a pattern of slashes appears over a locked track. Although clips in a locked track cannot be modified in any way, they are included when you preview or export the sequence. If you want to lock both a video track and a track with corresponding audio, lock each track separately. When you lock a target track, it's no longer the target. Source clips cannot be added to the track until you unlock it and target it again.

• To enable Track Lock for selected tracks, select the Toggle Track Lock icon  at the head of each video and audio track. 

• To enable track lock for all tracks of a particular type (video or audio), Shift-click the Toggle Track Lock box at the head of any track of that type.