Please revert the combination of Size and Position and Rotate and Scale

[CriticalCrouton]

I found that both the Size and Position and Rotate and Scale filters had different uses and worked together well, but the way that they were combined kept only the worst aspects of both filters. I find the new filter to be unintuitive, considering that for some unknown reason, you can only zoom into the center of the screen or corners with the terrible new system of targeted zoom. Before, rotate and scale zoomed to the center of the current screen. No matter where you move the screen now, it will zoom into a predetermined preset point with very little room to change. This forces you to either manually enter coordinates, which does work but is time-consuming and is mostly guesswork if you aren’t a professional, or switch back and forth between zooming in a certain percentile on middle center and switching to and zooming a certain percentile on left center, just as an example, which grants shakier results and is even more time consuming. PLEASE either fix the new filter or bring back the old ones in the next patch, because every other new addition and change improved my experience except this one, and I would prefer not to use an outdated version.

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How to unblock Rotate&Scale

The Size, Position & Rotate filter is superior and more intuitive in many ways: It is compatible with proxy editing (Offset X and Y in Rotate and Scale were not). The “Scale” parameter in Rotate and Scale was redundant with the “Size” in Size and Position. The “Offset” parameters in Rotate and Scale were redundant with the “Position” in Size and Position. The Zoom parameter in the new filter is almost exactly the same as the old Scale. The Rotate parameter in the new filter is exactly the same…

Make rotate and scale a seperate filter

I looked at the changelog for and your merged rotate and scale filter with the size and position filter. Now its harder to zoom at a specific point. There is only a general direction like the left-right top and bottom. With the old filter, you could specify where to zoom by moving the bar. Please undo this change. Thank you.

There is nothing wrong with it now, and it will not be changed.

[CriticalCrouton]

Thank you for your reply, I can now see the nuances and upsides of the new filter that I hadn’t gotten a grip on quite before. If using a previous version is the only way I will see the old filter again, that is likely what I’ll do. Thank you for the information.

[Irtibat_Kisileri]

Just registered to reply you. I am new to shotcut but minute i started to use i noticed these negative side kept using i thought i may be doing something wrong. yet i see now it is just a coder’s shor"t"cut. will be looking for alternatives after my current project complete. adios. would have loved it.

[Austin]

Read this thread before you go. Other people didn’t like the new SPR filter at first because they didn’t grasp the new shortcut keys and the tricks that went with it. After learning it, most people love the new version. Some of the tricks are listed here and they make common cases very fast:

I hate the new “Size, Position & Rotate” feature

I used the “Scale & Rotate” A TON. The “Size, Position & Rotate” is trash IMO and takes me so much longer to due simple zooms because I’m constantly having to drag the stick of whatever it is the middle of the screen but if I zoom in too much (which I do a lot with my work) it goes out of frame, I no longer have control of it and I have to reset everything. It’s just a pain in the ass and I’m extremely annoyed by it at this moment.