Duplicate files, Online versus offline media – Apple Motion 5.1.1 User Manual
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Chapter 6
Create and manage projects
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Duplicate files
If you need more copies of an object in your project, use the Duplicate command or drag a
source media files from the Media list to the Canvas or Timeline. Both methods create a new
instance of the source media file. Another way to duplicate an object is to use the Make Clone
Layer command. For more information on the Make Clone Layer command, see
on page 226.
In a project with duplicated layers, you can adjust the attributes of all duplicates simultaneously
by adjusting the source media’s parameters. You do this by selecting the source media in the
Media list, then modifying its parameters in the Media Inspector. These parameters define the
source media’s essential properties, including frame rate, pixel aspect ratio, interlacing, and alpha
channel parameters. There are also parameters that allow you to define source media’s end
condition, reversal, cropping, and timing.
For more information on Media parameters, see
on page 178.
Online versus offline media
Adding a media file to a Motion project creates a link between the resulting image layer in
Motion and its corresponding media file on disk. If you move, delete, or rename media files
on disk, the linked layers in Motion go offline. Media can also go offline if you give someone a
project file without also providing the source media it uses.
Offline layers appear as checkered rectangles that occupy the entire bounding box of the
missing image.
When a layer goes offline, a question mark icon appears beside the empty preview thumbnail in
the Layers list.
Icon indicates that
media is offline.
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