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Another detail Question: How to restrict movement to x or y axis only
Hi Everybody,
Another little X detail, I do not seem to manage to get my head around: Moving something in the Canvas, e.g. Text or Frame itself, in FCP7 (or other applications) you hold down the shift key to restrict movement to either only x or y axis. How to do this in X?
ThanX.Greetings,
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
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8 Replies
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Grab the little circle thing in the middle. Start to move .Then press shift. Sometimes. Often it will only work on the X axis. It’s pretty idiotic. Almost on par with keyframing abilities.
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Or just open the inspector to the transform pane, go to the X or Y axis controls and click drag up or down to shift the element perfectly on that fixed axis.
Added bonus – you get a numeric read out of position in case you need to align other elements.
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I just played with it again and can always get the horizontal (x) and often the vertical. Seems like sometimes you have to shift click and other times click shift. No rhyme or reason. Shouldn’t be so difficult.
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What is working for me is shift click dragging on the center tool in transform window for horizontally constrained movement and command shift dragging not the same tool for vertically constrained movement .
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Wow! Talk about learning something new every day. I never tried that and it works like a charm. Thanks Mark!
anickt
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“…and command shift dragging not the same tool for vertically constrained movement…”
My shift/tool “drag the button” horizontally works here… what does “not the same tool” refer to? Can’t get vertical constraint… Tried shift/command dragging which isn’t working. Help? ~ Thanks!
~ Steve Underwood
Computer: iMac 27″, (Mid 2011), OS X 10.7.5
Processor: 3.4GHz, Intel Core i7, Memory: 24GB
AMD Radeon HD 697OM, FCX 10.08, FCP 7.03
Pegasus 4TB RAIDComputer: MacBookPro (Mid 2009), OS X 10.7.5
Processor: 3.06 GHz Intel Core2Duo, Memory: 4 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, Software: FCX 10.08, FCP 7.03 -
I’m having actually the exact same issue now. 🙁
Sascha Engel
TIME BANDITZ Productions
http://www.youtube.com/taikang
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