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Managing Bin Locks Manually
You can also manually control the locked state of bins, during instances where you want to
keep bins locked for future use or prevent them from becoming locked when you only want to
browse the contents.
Keeping Bins Locked
If you want to lock one or more bins that you know you’re going to be switching among to either
prevent other collaborators from making changes or so that nobody else inadvertently prevents
you from having access, you can right-click one or more selected bins and choose Lock Bins to
lock them. Bins locked in this way remain locked, even when you deselect them, until you
right-click them again and choose Unlock Bins.
Manually locked bins stay locked
even when they’re not selected
Keeping Bins Unlocked
Additionally, you can choose to keep bins unlocked when selected. For example, you may just
want to examine the contents of a bin without keeping someone else from editing its contents.
In this case, simply Option-click any bin to open that bin in read-only mode, which is indicated
by an eyeball badge to the left of that bin in the Bin list. In this mode, any other collaborator can
still lock that bin while you’re examining its contents. Selecting any other bin will clear this
read-only status.
Selecting a bin in read only mode
allows collaborators to lock that
bin while you examine its contents
TIP: While a bin is open but manually unlocked by you, you can still open clips into the
Source Viewer and add markers to them, so long as another user doesn’t select that
same bin and lock you out.
Manually Unlocking Timelines
You can also manually manage the locking of timelines. Ordinarily, opening a timeline
automatically locks other collaborators out of making changes to that timeline, and also locks
the bin that timeline appears within. However, if you’ve finished making changes to a timeline
and you want to release it to other collaborators for immediate work, you can unlock the
currently open timeline.
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