Adjusting the Center Values & Anchor Point in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"This C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I am going to show you how to adjust the center values and anchor point. So let's talk about center value and anchor point now. If you look up at our motion tab you have center. This is our center value. Now this is where the center of your image is at in relation to the rest of the canvas. So when it is at 00 your image is totally centered. You can change this two different ways. By using this little + icon here to the side or by changing the numerical values. I don't necessarily know numerical values for X & Y access. If you do, you are a super genius and go ahead and do it. But for me all I do is just click this little button with the crosser on it, drag my cursor into the canvas. You notice you have two crosses. One is red and one is kind of gray. The one that is gray is my cross here. The one I am moving. One that is red is the current center so now I just take my cursor and I click wherever I want the center to be and now the center of my picture has moved to that position which is negative 127 by negative 66. I would have never known that so you can do it either way. Below that is your anchor point. Now the anchor point is the anchor of your image. Let me go ahead and just show you if I make a anchor point of say 60, now when I rotate my image; it's not actually rotating from the center now it is rotating from the side. So you can see right here. This second square now appears. This first one was originally for just moving around. The second square now shows your anchor point so if I drag this all the way to the corner because really setting the numerical value is extremely difficult, you are really not going to be very accurate with that unless you know exactly what the points are and their numerical values. Now when I rotate this, you notice now that it is rotating on the corner. So just by setting your anchor points you can rotate it from different portions of your image. "