From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Titles and Effects

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Adjusting transform settings

Adjusting transform settings

- The transform settings of a clip consist of scale, position, rotation, and anchor point. Let's see the different ways we can adjust each parameter using the inspector and the viewer, and how we can copy properties from one clip onto another. So I'm here in my Chapter 3-1 project, that I can find under my Projects events in the Chapter 3 folder. And what I'm going to do is select the first clip here in the timeline, so I'm just moving the playhead over that first clip, and a handy trick to select it is just to press the C key. Just make sure that it's selected and ready to go. If I take a look at the viewer here, on the bottom left corner is one way that I can access the Transform properties of the clip that's selected. So if I click on this button, notice a bounding box or almost a wire frame comes across your clip. Now usually, when I do scaling, position, rotation changes, which are all part of these transform properties, directly within the viewer, I like to zoom out. So I'm…

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