Subtitles of the Movie

Now one thing you might encounter when you're working with your Motion files, and this is usually over the course of time, you start a project you come back to it a week later, a month later, half a year later, and you might want to do so in terms of duplicating it or using it as a template, whatever the case may be, you might end up with this situation where you open up a project and I've opened one here that I'm working with to build other tutorials and then by reorganizing the folder Motion now loses track of where those original pictures have gone. So, you have a couple of choices here. You can either search through your hard drive, or even connected hard drives, or you can specify a path by clicking on Reconnect. If you click on Reconnect and you know where these pictures are then it becomes relatively easy, again if you've reorganized things, to go ahead and locate these items. Now watch what happens. It's looking for a picture called Clemente. JPG, and what I did to make, to force, Motion to forget about these things, or not forget about them, it remembered them, it just doesn't know where they live. It used to be in my Pictures folder, but I've rearranged all my Pictures folder so that I have this sub-folder called Baseball Pics. Now all I have to do as it's looking for Clemente. JPG is just give it a click and then click on Open. And now it puts all of those files in there, and now notice that the dialog box goes away because it's actually able to look through that same relative path and find the other files that have been missing and it matches those things up. So, really by doing Reconnect if you've got everything that still lives in the same relative path, they were all in the same folder, then Motion will be able to Reconnect all your missing files very automatically. It's a behavior that works very similar to Final Cut Pro, so if you're used to using Final Cut Pro and kind of understand how the clips contain references to the source media and how easy it can be to reconnect that source media, really the same thing is going on right here. Now to show you your other option you have for reconnecting media I'm going to go ahead and close this with the Command W, or using the File, Close and then I'm not going to save those changes, I'm not going to save Motion's ability to remember where those files are so we can hopefully duplicate this again. Open Recent, and we'll open up the same project again and get the same dialog box. Now in stead of reconnecting and specifying where those files live and that might be most helpful especially if these things have been renamed. But if they haven't been renamed and they live on the same drive and they're just in a different folder somewhere, then it's probably easiest to just click on Search, perform a search of your drive, picture names match up, and now you're able to work with the project as though nothing had happened.