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Why are some on/off square parameter toggles half filled with a diagonal triangle?
Hello everyone,
I just made a Title in Motion then published it and some individual parameters to FCPX. In FCPX, I noticed that some of the parameters on/off activation squares are not a solid square, rather, they are filled with a diagonal triangle. What is the difference between being completely filled and diagonally half-filled?
I tried to find this via search both on the forum and via Google to no avail!
Any help/insight appreciated.
~Shea A.J. Comfort
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3 Replies
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HI Shea –
The half filled box typically means that you have multiple items selected and one ore more of them have a parameter or effect enabled while others don’t.
It’s unbelievable useful and often overlooked that you can make parameter changes to multiple items at once in FCP X.
Here is an example:
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Thank you for the reply, that is interesting.
So, just so I understand: in your example above since colour and crop are full squares, does that mean that both selected clips in the time line have these on? Which clip(s) are creating the half-filled square for the transform parameter? IOW, how would I use the information given by the half-filled transform parameter square?
Thank you for the help.
~Shea
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[Shea A.J. Comfort] “in your example above since colour and crop are full squares, does that mean that both selected clips in the time line have these on?”
Yes.
[Shea A.J. Comfort] “Which clip(s) are creating the half-filled square for the transform parameter?”
The ones that are selected in the timeline (yellow outlines.)
[Shea A.J. Comfort] “IOW, how would I use the information given by the half-filled transform parameter square?”
It is a pretty standard way of indicating selected items have different attributes. Just depends on your situation on when and how you would use it.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque
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