Recall Movie

You can of cause retrieve your movies from saving for reviewing or further editing. To access your saved movies, you click on "Recall Movie" button (from the top black strip) to bring up a saved movie list where your movie files are displayed with their titles, lengths (total scene number) and saved dates. The list items descend according to their last saved dates (with the latest on top).

Recall a Listing

To recall a movie, you simply click on a list item to have it selected (the corresponding strip will be highlighted) and the selected movie will be retrieved into the timeline instantaneously. Once in the timeline, you'll see the title of that movie appeared next to the "floppy diskette" icon (located on the left side above the Timeline strip) and the sound symbol reflecting the color of its music track. From there, you can do whatever you normally do with a movie: play, compose, post to Gallery and/or re-save it to the list.

Delete a Listing

You can also delete item from your saved movie list. To delete a movie, you have it selected first (the corresponding strip will be highlighted), then click on the "trash can" icon (at the bottom right of the list). Now a warning screen will come up for your confirmation. You click "Delete" to confirm the removal of the selected movie, or click "Cancel" to revert your action.


Missing Assets Alert

If the movie you are recalling contains missing assets, Comixware will retrieve whatever that are retrievable in the timeline and present you with a Missing Assets Alert Screen. This screen lists the names of all currently missing items (BGs, scene objects, and/or music tracks) from your movie. The feature is designed for the up-keeping of your "user" assets. As you may, from time to time, revise, remove or misplace your user files that are still associated with your saved movies. The list is to remind you the broken linkages in your movie as well as to provide references for you to retrieve those missing assets.

Missing asset could also be caused by the exclusion of third party assets when the movie was saved. Since you chose to save the movie without those assets, they are now listed as "locally" missing.


Missing Asset Placeholder

A movie with missing assets will be displayed with missing asset placeholders in the place of missing assets, whether they are missing movie clip(s) or missing scene element(s). The missing asset placeholders maintain all attributes of the original objects (i.e., size, position, on screen duration etc.) and can be manipulated in SC mode. A movie with missing assets can still be played back normally for the most parts. Except at the scene(s) of missing clip(s), instead of playing its original length, the duration defaults to one second (12 frames) for the placeholder scene before moving on to the next scene.