Locking Down the Graph Editor

Maya
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Hello everyone!

I've created a camera move and tweaked it repeatedly to get the movement I want through my scene. Now I intend to make several render passes and composite outside maya. How can I lock down the animation curves for the camera and other moving objects in the graph editor?

I know that I can lock down the rotate, translate, scale and visibility attributes in the channel box. This grays out their manipulation handles but when I go to the graph editor, I can still move their keys around.

Is it possible to lock down animation curves in the graph editor?

Thanks

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Attribute and curve that drives it are two different things. So it's natural that locking the attribute does not lock the curve.

To lock the curve you must invoke setAttr -lock true on keyTimeValue array attribute in the animCurve node.