Apple Motion 2 - Manual (Page 181)

Chapter 2 Creating and Managing Projects 181
Online vs. Offline Media
As mentioned earlier, adding an object to a Motion project creates a link between the
object in your project and its corresponding media file on disk. When you delete, move,
or rename files on disk that are linked to objects in Motion, those files go offline,
meaning that they’re temporarily unavailable to your project. This can also happen if you
give someone a project file without also providing them with the source media it uses.
When you first open a project file with media that is unavailable, a Missing Items sheet
appears listing all the media files that can’t be found. Assuming the media has been
moved to another folder or disk instead of being deleted, you have the option to
search every disk connected to your computer to find them. If you know the location of
the missing media, you can display a manual reconnection sheet to navigate directly to
the files without having to search.
To reconnect the media files in this list using Search:
1 Click Search.
Motion attempts to automatically find the first missing file in the list. If it is found, a
sheet appears with the missing media file selected.
2 Click Open to reconnect the media.
3 If a file has been renamed, you’ll have to find it manually. Navigate to the renamed file’s
location, select it, then click Open.
If more than one of the missing media files appears in the same folder, all files are
automatically reconnected.
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