Anchors & Colliders

Takes, glides and what Program and Preview show.

Anchors and colliders are solved every time a scene is drawn: on the canvas, in the Output tab, in the Program and Preview monitors and on the live page. What you see while editing is where items air. When data changes a text (a longer name), everything anchored to it moves in the same frame.

Takes and colliders

• Only what is on air counts. A rundown item that is not taken is hidden, so its colliders never block or push anything.
• When a take puts a collider in an anchored item's way, or takes one out, the item glides to its new place (about half a second, easing out) instead of cutting. A stretched item whose side a collider stops resizes the same way.
• Taking a collider out: the waiting item holds while the collider's Out clip plays, then glides on to its anchored place.
• Only moves a collider causes glide. An anchor that follows a growing name stays tight to it, frame by frame.
• An item that is just taken in never glides: it appears where it belongs.