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  Rotating shape when zooming entire group?

  Posted by Peter Silie on May 29, 2016 at 9:27 am

  Hi,
  I finished my little project with an animated map. A shape is at the top of a motion path. Every thing is fine.
  But then I had the idea of zooming in. So I put the entire project into an additional group and set the position x and y coordinate to change over time as well as the zoom (skale) from 100 to 200% (in tab properties/transform). As soon as 100% changes to e.g. 101% the shape within the group starts rotating around itself. No other item turns. As far as I understood the principles and tutorials this should not happen. Is this a bug in Motion 5.2.3? How can I avoid this behaviour of this single item?

  Peter Silie replied 9 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  May 29, 2016 at 12:47 pm

  [Peter Silie] “But then I had the idea of zooming in. So I put the entire project into an additional group”

  Not sure about your bug but why don’t you use the 3D Camera to zoom in? Zooming on an entire project is really a camera move, not a scaling operation.

  ~jr

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  Peter Silie

  May 29, 2016 at 1:38 pm

  Hi John,
  thanks for the hint.

  I didn’t use any 3D functionality till now. I know some basics and it’s working fine, so I simply try to adapt my knowledge to the next step in changing the position and size like I did it before with all other items and even groups. I will examine the 3D camera functionality.

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