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When you're working with Combustion, chances are you're working on your own or with someone else and you might be working on a project where you have to use some kind of stand-in footage knowing full well that you'll replace it with something else to take its place and it's very easy to do in Combustion with the Replace Footage Option. The cool thing about what I'm about to show you is it works for pretty much anything and it will match the scale and everything else that you apply to whatever you're trying to swap out. In the case here, you look in the Viewport and you see I have this logo and it's in the composite. It's the Kid Caramel logo, one of my characters and when I twirl down the arrow, I can see the footage here. This is what we want to swap out. And if you go to my footage controls, you'll notice that I have this replace button in both the source and my output. So what I can do is click replace to change it with something else. Now before we do that, let me just give you a real-world example of this. You have to animate a logo and you have to add special effects to it so you, you do some opacity changes to it, you move it around in the Timeline, you change the scale of it and that kind of thing. And you do this because you can at least get something accomplished while you wait for the original asset that you need to come in from the art department. Another example, you work for a magazine and you're waiting for a shot of a car, but because you're working on a deadline, you can't sit around waiting for the car to come in. So you have a general idea as to what it looks like, the position of the car and the scale of the car. So you just sketch out something in Photoshop or Illustrator or even by hand, scan it in and just drop it into place so you can design the rest of the ad. You put the text in place, you put your images in place and then when the art department finally comes through, you get the original file you need and you can swap it out. Now, in Combustion's case, don't forget that your footage lives in the composite and it lives under the twirl of your Artwork. So you want to make sure you get to the Footage. And when I click Replace, I can swap it out with anything. For example, I can swap it out with the Star Field. click OK and notice how the Star Field conforms to the exact shape that was there. I'll go ahead and Undo that and I'll show you this guy has actually been twirled down. It's been changed in size. So I'll go back to my original log and you'll see that I scaled it down so it matched the 57 percent scale and if I sheared it or I did anything else to it, that footage would actually conform exactly to whatever you did and that is truly the beauty of replacing footage in Combustion. You can draw a regular rectangle, animate it, scale it, rotate it and then swap in the element that you really need to be there and it will fit in perfectly.