SF has all these nice auto guidelines that come up to help to position elements in the preview, but often not what I really want.

Frequently I want to nudge the selected item just a pixel or two left, right, up, or down. In most other design software the arrow keys can be used for this.

Other times I want to drag an item from wherever it happens to be to another location and constrain the drag to the vertical or horizontal. In most other design applications this is done with a shift-drag.

Neither of these seem to be supported in SF. If they are how do I do them? If they aren't, please consider this a feature request.

Hold down the Command key to disable snapping.

Meanwhile I agree with you that having the ability to nudge images and text 1 pixel at a time using the arrow keys would be great.

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PPC G5 Quad, OSX 10.5.7, Screenflow 1.5.4

Thanks for the info.

I guess I wansn't completely clear. it's not that snapping to the various guidelines is bad, it's just that it's not the same thing as being able to drag something exactly vertically or horizontally from wherever it currently sits, which is a feature pretty much every design tool has supported since something like 1986, usually performed through a shift-drag.

This is particularly useful in software like screenflow that animate elements from A to B.

Please post an example so the coders can have a look at what's happening and how you'd like it to behave. BTW please check this in ScreenFlow 2.0 and not 1.5.4.

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CraigS
Telestream Desktop Forum Moderator

Sorry, I don;t have time at the moment to make a video, but this is a simple and almost ubiquitous feature of design tools.

Do you have photoshop or a program like it?

1. Open Photoshop or similar
2. Create something in a layer, be it text, image anything
3. Select whichever tool you use to move things around
4. Hold down the shift key on your keyboard
5. Drag the thing you made in step 2 around a bit
6. Notice how you can only move the thing perfectly horizontally, vertically, or sometimes 45 degrees away from where the thing started. That's a good thing.

I have the same request! I was working on my first video and I want to add a video action where the screen starts at the top and goes to the bottom. Everytime I moved my screen down to the final position, the mouse moved it just a pixel or two to the right or left. I had to keep doing it over and over to make it right. I finally accepted that being a pixel or two off is not the end of the world and left it as is. Having a Shift key to lock in horizontal/vertical placement would be great.

It's always good to have a bit of a lobbying effort to persuade the coders to improve or add a feature. I've added the request to the wish list but seeing it as a problem helps a bit in the lobbying effort.

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CraigS
Telestream Desktop Forum Moderator

Add my name to the list of people who would really appreciate this.

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http://prescottcomputerguy.com

Hmmm. I'd like to be able to import and save a template or frame for my SF2 videos, something that would not show when I export. I'd be happy with a series of lines.

I'd also like to be able to save text boxes and other elements as separate, media-importable files. That way I could create an effect once and reuse it podcast after podcast.

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Dr. J
Podcast Host, "Lighting the Lamp"
Accordance Bible Software

DrJ, good suggestions but it'll be hard to track the post buried under "nudging" in the title. I think there should already be a thread about "templates" but if not, start one. That allows folks to "flesh out" the idea so I can give the coders a detailed description.

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CraigS
Telestream Desktop Forum Moderator

Related to this discussion, I've noticed that Actions no longer seem to be as "sticky" when Snapping is enabled. I'll try to extend an action from 15 to 20 frames by locating the time marker to the start of an action, right-arrow 5 times to add 5 more frames, then drag the start of the action, but it doesn't want to seem to stick to the time marker's new location. I swear that it worked better in 1.x.x than it does now in 2.0.1...

- Chris

Hmm. That's a tough one to determine. Is there a way you can verify this with a screencast? I know, it's a tough one.

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CraigS
Telestream Desktop Forum Moderator