Working with missing source footageIf After Effects cannot find footage when you open a project, it appears in the Project window labeled Missing, and the name of the missing footage appears in italics. Any composition using that item as a layer replaces it with placeholder color bars. You can still work with the missing item in the project, and any effects you have already applied to the missing layer remain intact. If you replace the placeholder with the actual footage, it returns to its correct place in all the compositions that use it. See Substituting a placeholder for footage. |