Highlighting Offline Media Clips

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> Customizing Timeline Views > Additional Procedures for Customizing the Timeline > Highlighting Offline Media Clips

You can choose to highlight the clips in the Timeline that have offline media. The clips appear red, indicating their media is offline. Selecting Offline overrides any previous source or local color selections.

Fast Menu button

To highlight the clips that have offline media:

Click in the Timeline to activate it.

Click the Timeline Fast Menu button, and select Clip Color > Offline.

Any offline media is displayed in red in the Timeline.

When you are working with nested layers, a clip that contains offline media appears red even if the missing media is nested many layers deep.

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