Repositioning of a clip from the Canvas

[Rob Forsythe]

I’m not sure why this is happening for you but, as long as you brought it up…

You should not reposition an image using ONLY this technique, anyway.

Its OK for a “rough” positioning to “drag” a clip, still or title around the screen, but do not stop with that step.

VERY IMPORTANT:

If you re-position graphics or any video image in FCP, make SURE the VERTICAL setting for each KEY-FRAME (start, stop or hold) is always a EVEN INTEGER (Even Whole Number). Examples: 4, not 3 / -144, not -143.27 / 336, not 335.62 / 12 not 11.

The positioning settings/info (as well as many other settings) are found under the “Motion” tab in the Viewer.
Vertical position is the number in the RIGHT window in the area called “Center” (the horizontal position is displayed in the LEFT window).

I sometimes forget to check this and I can end up with images that look fuzzy when in-position.

This info applies to re-positioning anything on the Timeline: moving video, freeze-frames, internally-generated titles, and imported graphics.

It can be quite detrimental to the quality of your final output to not double-check this every time you reposition and/or re-size an image.

[Steve Cohen]

Rob;

Thanks for the info, I was aware of that, and I do use the Canvas repositioning as a rough placement.

As to why this happening I can’t explain it either, but I wish I could correct it.

Thanks again and any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Rob Forsythe]

Great, but there are many who may NOT know this, so I had to say it.

Now, to your main problem…

Do you have the Canvas view set to “Image+Wireframe”?

The menu can be found by clicking on the button with the square with the “broken sides” just above the image screen.

[Steve Cohen]

Yes it is set to Image and Wireframe.

I would not be able to grab the center crosshairs if it wasn’t.

This one has me stumped also. All my settings are as they normally would be.

I’m, sure it’s a keystroke I inadvertently hit, because I can almost swear it started happening after I was doing a control something and hit the wrong keyt, but can’t remember what.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Steve Cohen]

Not sure what it was, but I closed the project I was working on.

Opened an old one and the peositioning worked as it should.

Then when I went back to the project I’m working on now it worked fine.

Thanks again, but I wish I knew what happened.

Steve Cohen
Editor
O2 Media Inc.

[Rafael Amador]

This is normall to happens with interlaced clips, because if you shift the possition of the clip a uneven number of pixels you are stting the odd lines of the clip on top of the even ones of your sequence, and the evens on top of the odds so they are miss readed. But shouldn’t happens with progresive stuff.
Cheers,
rafael