Grass Valley Xstudio Vertigo Suite v.4.10 - Manual (Page 103)

5-10 Xstudio User Manual
Adding and preparing objects on the Xstudio canvas
Selecting multiple objects on the canvas
There are editing situations when it is faster, more effective, and even necessary to select
multiple objects on the canvas. For example, figure
5-6 shows that when creating an
Xmedia object it may contain several objects, like buttons or text box primitives. If you
wanted to move the Xmedia object to another location on the canvas, you would want to
select them all, possibly group them, and then move them as one object, rather than as
individual objects.
Figure 5-6. Red object zone grids appear when multiple objects are selected on the canvas
To select multiple objects on the canvas:
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Hold down the C TRL or S HIFT key on your keyboard, then click directly on each of the
objects.
When the first object is selected, a blue grid (object zones) appears on top of the object
indicating that it has been selected and that it is now the primary object on the canvas.
However, when you select the next object, the first object’s grid changes to red, indicating
that it is still selected but no longer the primary object. Meanwhile the second object that
was selected now appears with a blue object zone grid indicating that it was the last, and
now primary, object selected. See
“Resizing objects using object zones” on page 5-13 for
more information about object zones.
An alternative technique for selecting multiple objects is to hold down the left mouse button
and drag the pointer completely around all of the objects to be selected and then release.
If all of the objects were inside the dragged box, the blue and red object zone grids appear
on the objects indicating that these objects are selected.