Size, Position & Rotate, constrain to n axis

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Hi again,

I have found my enquiry posed in one thread only but it was never answered, only workarounds proposed.

I often take videos that are horizontal and have to prepare them for Instagram (vertical). I increase the size so it fills the vertical axis but I have to then move the video horizontally to keep the subject centred. It would be really cool to be able to constrain the dragging movement to a particular axis using, for example, Ctrl + Drag for the X axis and Alt + Drag for the Y axis or maybe just holding down Ctrl and dragging constrains movement to 0° or 90° only.

This could also be achieved by “locking” an axis as shown here :pray:

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I appreciate there may be other ways to achieve this, but it would be nice to have this as a feature.

Thank you in advance!

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OK, here are more workarounds because the suggestion might never happen (more is often not better due to clutter, communications confusion, maintenance, and potential for more bugs–when there are existing means):

a) turn on the player grid overlay with snapping (defaults on)
b) change the numeric fields instead of interactively dragging the video control

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Hi @BeretGascon , +1 for this. Keyboard modifiers for this would be great. Also I like the idea being able to lock an axis.

Just to add to @shotcut’s tip of using the grid as a workaround:

Add ANOTHER SPR filter;
Set the grid to 2 x2 (snapping on);
Use the 1st SPR filter to resize/position the object;
Use the 2nd SPR filter to move the object vertically or horizontally.
I made his super-quick demo - (no commentary):

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