Adjusting the Scale & Rotation in the Viewer in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I am going to show you how to adjust the scale and rotation in the viewer. So let me show you now how to change the scale and rotation of your image in the viewer. First up is scale. Scale has a slider bar here; left to right. Left being lower and right being higher. Now this works in percentages. Right now my image is at 90 percent and now it is at a 100 percent. You can put in values numerically in the little box here or just by sliding the slider. Now anything above 100 percent, starts getting pix lated. If you watch, I make this larger my image is getting very very pix lated. If you go smaller, you are okay but larger than a 100 will make it pix late so just keep that in mind. Now your rotation below it is for doing exactly that; rotating your picture. All right now this works not in percentage but in degrees. So you have 90 degrees, 180 degrees, 360 degrees and again over here, you can type in a value. You will notice that there is this little red line; not the black line but the red line. This red line represents how many rotations you will be spinning. If you notice I went all the way around once and now this is on this first notch here. This represents one rotation and I turn 360 degrees. Now when it gets above 360 it doesn't stop there. It keeps adding on. As you can see, I am up to another rotation of 720 and this little red tick here is now on the second dash and that represents two rotations. You can rotate more than one time depending on how many times you move the little black bar and rotate it. "