In the VSE Preview - Text "X & Y" alignments are not working correctly #65458

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Judah King · 2019-06-03T19:21:13+02:00

Judah King commented

2019-06-03 19:21:13 +02:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.18362 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce 820M/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 389.12

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.80 (sub 74), branch: master, commit date: 2019-06-03 14:42, hash: 0efe89bdd8
Worked: (optional)

Short description of error
In the VSE Preview - Text "X & Y" alignments are not working correctly

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

Opened blender's Video Editing Workspace
I added a text layer in the timeline > the text is placing by default in the bottom the VSE Preview monitor
In the "effects strip" panel, I changed the alignment of X & Y. But, it doesn't work properly.
(e.g. when I selected "Top" from the align Y dropdown - The text is aligned to "bottom". the same issue in the align X)

Please check the blend file :
vse-text-alignment-issue.blend

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.18362 64 Bits Graphics card: GeForce 820M/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 389.12 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 2.80 (sub 74), branch: master, commit date: 2019-06-03 14:42, hash: `0efe89bdd8` Worked: (optional) **Short description of error** In the VSE Preview - Text "X & Y" alignments are not working correctly **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** 1. Opened blender's Video Editing Workspace 2. I added a text layer in the timeline > the text is placing by default in the bottom the VSE Preview monitor 3. In the "effects strip" panel, I changed the alignment of X & Y. But, it doesn't work properly. (e.g. when I selected "Top" from the align Y dropdown - The text is aligned to "bottom". the same issue in the align X) Please check the blend file : [vse-text-alignment-issue.blend](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7084782/vse-text-alignment-issue.blend)

Judah King commented

2019-06-03 19:21:13 +02:00

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tintwotin commented

2019-06-04 10:15:33 +02:00

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tintwotin commented

2019-06-04 10:15:33 +02:00

You should add a 'Video Sequencer' tag to your bug-report.

I think the Location X & Y will place your text in a position of the preview area and the Align X&Y only aligns the text at that position like in a text editor:

The Align X&Y are not presets for the Location X&Y values. The reason the text to move up when selecting bottom is because it is aligning the bottom of the text to the location position. And Top makes align the text top to the location position.

This behaviour is not very clear from the labels or the tooltips.

To avoid users thinking that Align settings are presets, maybe the Location X&Y widgets should be above the Align X&Y, so they will be in the order that first is the X&Y position entered and then followed by the less important align text at that position. Or even better, the alignment positions could be icon buttons:

That said, I think the functions are working as intended, but IMO the current infos on the functions are confusing.

I'll leave a SS here of the functions:

You should add a 'Video Sequencer' tag to your bug-report. I think the Location X & Y will place your text in a position of the preview area and the Align X&Y only aligns the text at that position like in a text editor: ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7086131/image.png) The Align X&Y are not presets for the Location X&Y values. The reason the text to move up when selecting bottom is because it is aligning the bottom of the text to the location position. And Top makes align the text top to the location position. This behaviour is not very clear from the labels or the tooltips. To avoid users thinking that Align settings are presets, maybe the Location X&Y widgets should be above the Align X&Y, so they will be in the order that first is the X&Y position entered and then followed by the less important align text at that position. Or even better, the alignment positions could be icon buttons: ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7086319/image.png) That said, I think the functions are working as intended, but IMO the current infos on the functions are confusing. I'll leave a SS here of the functions: ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7086169/image.png)

William Reynish was assigned by tintwotin

2019-06-04 10:29:48 +02:00

William Reynish commented

2019-06-04 20:14:48 +02:00

We should probably just copy what we did for text objects here.

We should probably just copy what we did for text objects here. ![Screenshot 2019-06-04 at 20.14.24.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7086841/Screenshot_2019-06-04_at_20.14.24.png)

tintwotin commented

2019-06-04 21:04:06 +02:00

That would make it so much more clear. If Location would have it's own sub panel too, users wouldn't think, the alignments are presets for the Location values.

Richard Antalik commented

2019-06-07 00:28:46 +02:00

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Richard Antalik commented

2019-06-07 00:28:46 +02:00

In #65458#694999, @WilliamReynish wrote:
We should probably just copy what we did for text objects here.

Agree, but text outside of preview with default position is bug though

> In #65458#694999, @WilliamReynish wrote: > We should probably just copy what we did for text objects here. > > ![Screenshot 2019-06-04 at 20.14.24.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7086841/Screenshot_2019-06-04_at_20.14.24.png) Agree, but text outside of preview with default position is bug though

William Reynish commented

2019-06-25 14:13:36 +02:00

To me the issue is simply that the default is bad. We should probably default to the text being placed in the center, like this:

To me the issue is simply that the default is bad. We should probably default to the text being placed in the center, like this: ![Screenshot 2019-06-25 at 14.13.01.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F7547480/Screenshot_2019-06-25_at_14.13.01.png)

William Reynish was unassigned by Dalai Felinto

2019-12-23 16:34:12 +01:00

Dalai Felinto commented

2019-12-23 16:34:12 +01:00

Added subscriber: @WilliamReynish

tintwotin commented

2020-06-12 12:43:03 +02:00

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In the VSE Preview - Text "X & Y" alignments are not working correctly #65458