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Can somebody please tell me how on earth I change the pivot point for some text?
With the transform node selected I can click 'transform' pivot, the cross turns red and I can move it.
But when I rotate the word it keeps on rotating from it's original position (middle)?!

What is 2 keystrokes in Ae seems a whole task in Fusion, or is te pure ignorance from my side

Sadly, Fusion's text handling is not (yet) as good as AE's. There is no viewport widget to control the text pivot point. The red arrow widget is only the transform handle. Instead, you have to enter numeric values in the fields of the Line Pivot control in the control panel.

You can rotate the text by character, word, and line in the Text+ tool. The pivot's location in each mode is relative, not to the screen, but to the bottom and center of the object. The magnitude, though, is normalized to the screen width and height. So if you set the x coordinate of the Line Pivot to 1.0, but the Transform handle is still in its default location at 0.5, 0.5, the actual Line Pivot is at screen coordinate x = 1.5 (1.0 screen width + 0.5 handle location). Super confusing, if you ask me.

On the other hand, the pivots and rotations for characters, words, and lines are all independent, which can lead to some interesting and complex text animation if you have the patience for it.

The Text3D tool works pretty much the same way, but you have a secondary 3D Transform tab (common to most 3d tools) that can add another layer of bewilderment.

Hi Marc

You said that you have a transform node.

Are you using a combination of a Text+ node and a Transform(Xf) node ?

Because changing the pivot inside the Transform node really does not affect the pivot inside the Text+ node. The latter uses another pivot.

There is a 4 part series tutorial focused specifically on the Text+ Tool. Maybe it can help you to achieve the same proficiency as in AE:






And there's one specifically about the Follower modifier which is the most important to make "typo animation"

Adelson Munhoz wrote:Are you using a combination of a Text+ node and a Transform(Xf) node ?

No, you wouldn't want to do that, as the transform doesn't concatenate. But you can set rotation pivots in XYZ in the Transform tab. There's no preview control by default, however.

Thanks everybody, so it seems I have to punch in some numbers manually
Did not expect that from a otherwise powerful program like Fusion.

Cheers!