templates: When you deposit an asset into the library you create a template. It is referred to as a template because, like its name suggests, you can use it to be the pattern for new animation assets. When you drag or copy a template into the timeline and exposure sheet you are using the library asset as a pattern to create a new and independent animation asset. Notice that it is uniquely named different from the source pattern template’s name. You can modify that new asset and there is no effect on the template from which you patterned it. If you go to the library template itself it is unchanged. And if after you use a library template as a pattern for other animation assets and then you go in and edit the library template itself, it has no effect on the previously patterned copies, those changes only will show up in new patterned copies.

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