I agree, the rotation tool is very unfriendly to use. If the user could move away from the center, before starting the rotation, or CHOOSE the center of rotation, it might be more intuitive and accurate.
I pay for VS on an "as-needed" basis because in spite of its glaring short-comings, it does certain things well and is, overall, much easier to use than After Effects.
I keep hoping to see a greatly improved version each time I come back.
-Mike(videoscribe user)
Yes, you can key in degrees of rotation in the element properties. You can add minus values to rotate anti-clockwise.
Chad LL
I'm a developer/designer and was planning on using VideoScribe to convey product concepts in the form of a video(s) to my fellow team members. Conveying those types of concepts, of course, require more "slides" and transitions than what I would expect from your normal user videos.
Here is a list of features I would love to see in a future version.
1) Selection of multiple slides to set shared properties in one go.
2) Grouping of slides, that can be moved and managed as a single entity.
3) Merging of slides, e.g. merging boxed text becoming a single slide.
4) Naming of slides, hard to morph when you can't find the source slide to morph from.
5) Slides previews showing exactly as on the canvas.
6) Direct drawing. I have a wacom and would love to draw on the canvas without having to go the whole Inkscape route. Even drawing arrows would be faster and easier than using the image library.(Some might even prefer a more unique look)
7) Oh, the rotation tool mechanism, really hard to use... Don't think it can be any more user unfriendly.
But, you guys have a really great product, it's just not there for me yet.
Thanks for reading.
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