Apple Motion 4 - Manual (Page 251)

To reconnect the media files in this list using Reconnect
1 Click Reconnect.
2 In the manual reconnection dialog, navigate to the file’s location, then click Open.
If a layer in your project file is offline and you do not immediately reconnect it upon
opening the project, it appears as a checkered rectangle that occupies the entire bounding
box of the layer.
If you do not immediately reconnect an offline layer, you can still save changes to the
project and even close it again, and reconnect the offline layers later. You can reconnect
these offline layers at any time.
To reconnect a layer in a project with its source media on disk
1 Open the Media tab in the Project pane.
2 Select the offline layer you want to reconnect.
3 Open the Media tab in the Inspector.
4 Click the Replace Media File button that appears underneath the Linked Objects parameter.
Motion attempts to automatically find the first missing file in the list. If it is found, a file
dialog appears with the missing media file selected.
5 Click Open to reconnect it.
Note: You can also use the File > Reconnect Media command.
The offline layer comes online, and the original graphic appears. If more than one missing
media file appears in the same folder, all files are automatically reconnected.
Deleting Objects from a Project
There are two ways you can delete an object in Motion. You can delete a single instance
of an object from the composition by deleting it in the Layers tab, Timeline, or Canvas.
By default, this removes the object from use and removes its source media in the Media
tab, if it is no longer used by the project. If other instances of that object appear in your
project, those are left alone.
251 Chapter 6 Creating and Managing Projects