Is there a way to add a password to either a zipped file or a m4v file?

Either using the apps that are included or any FREE app thanks

Well, first, there are a couple caveats.  If you want to compress your home folder into an encrypted .zip file, you wouldn't want to place that .zip file on the desktop.  There could be problems with trying to put the .zip file inside the folder you are zipping!  I would put it at the root level of the hard drive instead.  Second, if this is something you want to do regularly, as a means for creating an encrypted backup of the home folder or something similar, this isn't a very efficient or easy method.  Creating such a large .zip file will take a long time, and it will have to be re-created from scratch every time you want to update the backup.  It would be better to use a specific tool for that task.
However, all that said, to create a zip archive named cool.zip at the root level of the hard drive, containing the entire home folder, you would execute the following command:
zip -e /cool.zip /Users/yourusername
You should also be able to substitute '~' for your home folder path:
zip -e /cool.zip ~
If you wanted to create an archive of your Documents folder and place it on the desktop, to give another example, here's the command you would use:
zip -e ~/Desktop/cool.zip ~/Documents
Hope all that helps!

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