Project locking with multiple open projects

Learn how project locking ensures only one user can make changes to a project at a time, preventing conflicting edits.

About project locking

Using shared local storage, multiple editors can work on different projects in the same production. Project locking locks a project as soon as it’s opened for editing. This ensures that no one overwrites your work. Your colleagues can still access your project and copy content from it, but they can’t make changes until you’ve completed your edit.

When multiple projects are open

If you have several open projects, only one can be actively edited at a time. If you try to make changes to another project, it will be locked for editing until the first project is closed or deactivated.

When multiple collaborators are working on the same project

If multiple editors are working on the same project from different machines, project locking ensures that no one can overwrite another user's changes. This is especially helpful when working in teams. All projects in Production share the same settings, including scratch disks. This means that preview files rendered by one editor can be available for all editors who use that project, ensuring smooth playback and time savings for the whole team.