Changing an anchor point

[Brendan Gibbons]

I’m not in front of the box right now, but I believe once you activate the transform tool (Shift + T) in the bottom left hand corner of the viewer, jump over to the video inspector pane and you should find controls for anchor x and Y.

From memory, unfortunately I don’t think there is an on screen control for this to position it in the viewer. You have to adjust the x,y values of anchor in the inspector.

Cheers,

BG

[Lawrence Eaton]

thanks Brendan,

I think I was looking for something more ‘visual’ to be able to change the anchors. Oh well, get my calculator out now.

Lawrence

[Noah Kadner]

Position the playhead where you want the anchor to move to. Command-Option click at that point. Both the playhead and the clip connection will jump to that point.

Noah

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[Mark Morache]

Try this…

There does not seem to be an overlay that shows you the center, only the safe title, so I created a simple one in photoshop.

Single vertical line, and a single horizontal line.

Connect the cross over the clip you want to adjust the anchor point of.

Adjust the X and Y until the point you want is directly in the center.
Now put the X and Y values of the anchor points into the X and Y position.

Now when you rotate, it rotates around the point you selected.

Is this what you’re looking for?

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[Lawrence Eaton]

Mark,

Many thanks. That’ll work for now, 🙂

Lawrence

[David Morris]

Did u ever find out how to move it with the mouse?
Seems I remember seeing a tutorial on how to do it but I can’t find it.

[Jim Rage]

I’m a few years late, but if you open the inspector there’s a little box at the top of the transform settings. If you click it, it’ll bring up a bounding box for your layer with a center point.

Also, the x&y coordinates can be treated like sliders. You don’t have to type in a value. If you click and drag on any of the numbers in the inspector they will change as if you were using a slider. It’d still be nice to be able to move the anchor point with your mouse, but I’m currently in the middle of a project that involves doing this a lot, and it hasn’t been that bad.