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  • Turning off the annoying control point indicator

    Posted by Nicolas Huvé on October 29, 2012 at 7:08 am

    Hey all. This is my first post here. I would ask the apple support but as usual they have bugs with apple IDs.
    I often refer to this site so i thought i might as well sign in.

    I’ve had this problem for a long time and on the project I am on right now it is particularly annoying.

    This is on Motion 4

    I am modifying a mask frame by frame to follow a shape. It needs to be precise.

    However, everytime I move a control point, there is always that gray rounded rectangle which indicates the pixel location which appears somewhere near the control point blocking my view.

    I don’t need that info, but I need to see what i’m doing. Do you guys know of any way to turn off that feature?

    Your help would be much appreciated.

    Mark Spencer replied 13 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Mark Spencer

    October 29, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    You can’t turn it off. What I do if it’s in the way is to hold down the spacebar, which turns on the Pan tool, then drag in the Canvas so that I can access the control point that it is blocking.


    Mark Spencer
    Freelance Producer/Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
    Apple-certified Master Trainer
    Author, Motion 4 from Peachpit Press
    https://www.applemotion.net

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