Controlling exact XY coordinates of a custom motion path

In this video, I present a question & one possible solution.
The question is “How can I define the exact X & Y coordinates of the end point of a custom motion path?”.
My solution, well watch the video and you’ll see 🙂 As I mention in the video I would love to know if anyone has any suggestion as to how to do this even more precisely. If you have any brainwaves please do leave a comment below.
Many thanks for watching and happy captivating!

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Fergus Fadden Follow

Hi there! I'm Fergus. I'm originally from Ireland and via stints living and working as a trainer France, Spain, Brazil and South Africa I now find myself living and working in beautiful Canada. Professionally, I come from over 10 years of teacher training in the English as Second Language industry where I was involved in many innovative 'ICT in classroom' projects. I also project managed curriculum development projects for deployment in a number of LMS products. Since 2016 my principal focus has been Instructional design. I transitioned to Adobe Captivate in 2018. Working as an Instructional designer has allowed me to also leverage skills with Photoshop, Indesign, Audition, Garageband, iMovie and Premiere Pro as well as live video recording, audio recording and photography. I love to collaborate and get to know people in this wonderful community! I've learned so much from new friends and colleagues I have met in the Adobe forums and I look forward to making more connections and growing together as a community.

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Kari Mueller

2019-05-24 16:23:30

Great Captivate tip! Thanks for sharing!

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Lieve Weymeis

2019-05-23 08:07:32

Forgot: the snap functionality available for guides is not working very precisely for points in a motion path. Can you please add your voice to ask to fix it by logging a feature request?

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Fergus Fadden

2019-05-23 11:15:19

Thanks for your insights as ever Lieve. Yes, I certainly will log this feature request.

Lieve Weymeis

2019-05-23 07:49:50

You asked for an alternative? Effects are XML-files, you can edit those files. Problem is that the move distance is always relative, not to absolute coordinates.

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Lieve Weymeis

2019-05-23 07:48:52

Here are links to the posts I was talking about:

https://blog.lilybiri.com/guides-rule

And this very old one (where I used line objects as a crosshair) , with an example published file in SWF format:

https://blog.lilybiri.com/reset-effects

Lieve Weymeis

2019-05-23 07:46:13

This is indeed the solution I use most now, and I have a blog about it, where I do present the rulers and guides as help for design.

Before rulers appeared in 9.0.1. (had been pleasing to get them since CP5, got very angry when they were still not in 9.0.0), I used line objects to create ‘crosshairs’ to line up the center point of the bounding box.

It is very annoying that we still cannot change the reference point for any object. For aligning the reference point is the top left point, for effects it is the center point, both for the bounding box. I gave up (since CP5) pleading to have that functionality.

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