vectors disappear in canvass

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vectors disappear in canvass

I finished a motion project with 100 vectors. All vectors were saved and locked. When I looked back later, half of the vectors were invisible. I went into the movies to open the back-up files, but they looked the same. The toggle box in the project pane is dimmed to the vectors that are missing in the canvas. If you click on them, nothing happens, but you can see the behaviour icons and the moving path in the canvas, but the box remains greyed out.

I have

Restarted MacBook

Open up an older backup in Movies and rename it, and try to reopen

Unlocked all vectors, tried to visualise clicking on the toggle box, pressing v.

Opened the media pane and made sure no missing files

Opened render quality and toggled between Draft and Best

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jun 24, 2025 06:22 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 24, 2025 07:21 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Vectors are the assets imported from Adobe Illustrator. it is 100 parts of a painting each containing different colours and in different 2 dimensional geometrical forms. As you can see in the canvas there should be a square image mda by 100 vectors but only 1/3 are visible and the icons in the toggle box in the project pane are greyed out for the vectors that cannot be seen in the canvas

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Answer 2

Jun 24, 2025 06:31 AM in response to 1000ochennatt

What exactly do you mean by "vectors"? Is this vector image files, or something else?

Can you tell us more about this project?

If possible, share the xml? (The Motion file itself is a form of xml, without the external elements, so relatively small).

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Answer 3

Jun 24, 2025 06:45 AM in response to 1000ochennatt

Just an idea. Did you make sure that all objects (vectors?) are visible in the timeline? If the cursor is on an object which is not within the project duration, then it is not visible. Click on each one to edit its length (shortcuts i, o).

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Answer 4

Jun 30, 2025 04:03 AM in response to 1000ochennatt

I can only see one item in the layers list - Asset 366 - that is unchecked.

Are you saying that you cannot check it (and presumably all the others not shown in the screenshot) to make it visible? It does look perfectly normal, just turned off (unchecked)...

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Answer 5

Jun 24, 2025 07:22 AM in response to claude_210

Yes, I did :) I have made that mistake before. But they are all there

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