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stefano41 Author

Level 1

4 points

Apple Motion Objects suddenly disappear

When working on a project, suddenly the project’s objects (video, images, text) stop appearing in the Canvas. While they appear normal in the Timing pane, in the Project Pane the toggle switch is dimmed—though it is checked. Clicking on the toggle does nothing.

When I replace the video clips and or add new objects (from different sources) the problem remains. Strangely, there’s one video clip in the middle where the video image still appears, though the sound doesn’t work.

I exported the project file and the only thing that appears is the unaffected clip (no sound).

So far I have:

Deleted preferences
Restarted the MacBook
Reinstalled Motion (twice)
Saved the media to the file and moved it to just the MacBook (normally I use a display and external drive)

I’ve had two files show this behavior. The others seem okay, but I’m reluctant to work on them in case they take on the same issue. I worried about losing more data/time.

I’m running: MacBook Pro 13” 2019 Ventura 13.5 (latest update)

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Here's screen shot of the Project pane:

MacBook Pro 13″

Posted on Aug 3, 2023 7:18 AM

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22 replies

SnidelyW

Level 1

8 points

Jul 12, 2024 11:13 AM in response to stefano41

This happened to me. I was typing something and hit the wrong keys and everything went blank in the player window. Everything still showed in the timelines but the player window was blank. My solution was to click on View menu, click on Channels. Then I changed the setting from "Alpha" to "Color" and everything showed back up like normal. Somehow I must have hit Shift+A and it changed my channel to "Alpha" by accident.

About 10 minutes of panic but I'm breathing much easier now. haha

fox_m

Level 6

12,595 points

Jun 14, 2024 9:45 PM in response to Creator_needs_help

The option to show canvas on second display is not available (dimmed out). I can see *where* the text object is, but I don't see the canvas. It should look like a black rectangle. Show me this: