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Autosave
These settings control how frequently projects are saved, as well as the location of the saved les.
Saved projects are time- and date-stamped. For more information about customizing autosave,
see Use autosave on page 189.
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Use Autosave Vault: A checkbox that, when selected, stores autosaved projects to the location
specied by the Autosave Vault Folder path. By default, the Autosave Vault folder is located in a
folder called Motion Projects in the Movies folder of your home directory.
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Save a copy every: A value eld that species how often, in minutes, a project is saved.
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Keep at most: A value eld that species how many versions of the autosaved project to store
in the vault.
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Maximum of: A value eld that species the maximum number of autosaved projects to store
in the vault.
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Autosave Vault Folder: A group of controls that let you set where the autosave les are kept.
The Reset button sets the autosave location back to its default.
Optical Flow Retiming
When you retime footage, Motion stores the retiming les on your computer. The settings in this
section of the Cache pane specify the storage location.
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Save Retiming Files: Two buttons that set the storage location of retimed footage:
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In folder with source media: When enabled, this button tells Motion to save the retiming les
in the same location as the source footage.
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In this folder: When enabled, this button sets a custom storage location. Click Choose, then
select a new location in the le dialog. By default, the Optical Flow folder is located in the /
Users/username/Library/Caches/com.apple.motionapp/Retiming Cache Files/ folder.
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Delete Retiming Cache: A button that deletes any optical ow retiming les and resets any
objects with optical ow to frame blending. An alert dialog appears asking if you want to
remove all retiming les.
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Reveal in Finder: A button that, when clicked, shows the location of the retimed le folder in
the Finder.
Canvas pane
The Canvas pane of the Preferences window contains settings to customize your Canvas
view. Changes made in this pane take immediate eect in your current project. There are two
categories: Alignment and Zones.
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