CP5 - W7 - QUESTION - Motion paths, send project to other person.

Hi Me and my college work with the same CP files.
We have an internal flow
01-Preproduction
02-Post production
03-Ready for export
04-Exported and approved
I am responsible for the preproduction, creating animations and recording stuff
My college is responsible for cleaning and smoothing errors and edit text.
During the preproduction I create custom motion paths
When my colluege open the"moved" project files the animation works but he can not see my paths... it seems that my paths have been compiled to be a part of the project, and are no longer editable.
When working in a projectfile nothing should be compiled in to the project, everything should be editable. that is the reason to send a project file and not a compiled version to someone.
So what I want: I think that paths should be included in the project as editable paths when moving a project.
And I want to know if it is my lack of competence, a bug or an undeveloped feature that makes the paths compile into the project upon move.
Best Regards // Daniel

Hi Lilybiri,
It was lack of knowledge that led me to post this.
Actually, after reading your post and entering my colleges computer to investigate I found what the problem was...
He had the obect locked. Of course he could not see anything, because you can not even select a locked object.
Thank you for answering eaven the stupidest questions from my side.
Actually I think this whole tread should be deleted because it creates more confusion than knowledge for readers.
BR // Daniel

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I want to give back a little to this community, I got a lot of answers on my questions. And I am greatfull for the help.
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motion paths
right-click on LeftToRight.xml and choose copy
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<Source frameRate="30" x="51.7" y="75.2" scaleX="1" scaleY="1" rotation="0" elementType="movie clip" instanceName="abc" symbolName="Symbol 1">
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<Keyframe index="0" tweenSnap="true" tweenSync="true">
<tweens>
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<tweens>
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The code you easy can undestand
In the begining it says duration="60"
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More below in the code you see:
<Keyframe index="0" tweenSnap="true" tweenSync="true">
<tweens>
   <SimpleEase ease="0"/>
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<Keyframe index="59" tweenSnap="true" tweenSync="true" x="400." y="0">
<tweens>
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0 to 59 is 60 steps
You can by altering these values choose how long an object should move.
Examples:
Left to right: tweenSync="true" x="400." y="0"
Right to left: tweenSync="true" x="-400." y="0"
Top to bottom: tweenSync="true" x="0." y="400"
Bottom to top: tweenSync="true" x="0." y="-400"
Mov to left lowe corner : tweenSync="true" x="400." y="400"
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Rename LeftToRight-copy.xml to for instanse TopToBottom.xml
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DPZ,
That is awesome, I was kinda curious about exporting/importing effect XMLs. Thanks for the tutorial.
I too wrestled with getting objects to animate the way I wanted. However, I found a different way to achieve what I think is the same thing, and it was all from the interface rather than the XMLs. There is shockingly spare information online and in help about the Cp5 effects, so I'll share this too in case it's helpful...
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