VinylCut 5 Software Shape Tool Overview (Part 1) the Shape Tool Video Mini-Series

Have you ever tried to edit your vector shapes but made more of a mess then good?

When it comes to editing vector points and nodes it can become quite complicated, so having some basic knowledge of what the tools features does is a good starting point.

This is part of a Mini-Series.

Next video Add, Remove and Move Node Points

Video Transcript

How do you guys in today's video of Final Cut will be looking at the shape tool or rather will have an overview of the shape tool? It's a quick intro. Yeah. Mm Mm mm. So today's video Can we find our softwaretraining.co.za ? Uh, you guys all know that we've got a variety of different Softwares you do cover and to upload videos daily. So therefore, it in context. Otherwise, we're back in the programme. Yeah. Now, Yeah. Just so you guys know the shape tool, this will be a miniseries. So I'll have a few tutorials on this, just so that because it's quite a complex tool. So we weren't able to cover everything in one video, but yeah, but when it comes to the shape tool, it's used for manipulating on changing vector shape. So if you've got rectangle or any shape or path as you've created with a pen or so forth, then you can actually edit its points afterwards, which is quite convenient in any case. So let's have a quick over view of it so it can be located. And our tool panel here on the left, someone called shape tool, that shortcut for a. So if we've selected it well, she's got four different options here. It's a type of corners or notes you can set but the sharp. And then you've got kind of one. You can, um, adjusted the curve in and out. So if you wanna have interesting shapes there, then you've got the one that rounds it. But the controlling arms, which will cover later you can kind of move the distance from each other individually, where you've got the one we can where it constraints the moving arms. So if you had to move the right to the right and the left will go equal distance to the left, then, uh, yeah, and then a very common mistake. So let's say you're trying to control these shapes, uh, points. But there's no points, then, More likely than not, it is in a group. So if we look in a layers panel, follow the G, the open. As you can see, we've got the path and the shape. So in order to edit them, we can go on top of the object, and we got on group control. Shift gears a shortcut. Now click on the shape we can see these little nodes. And that is how we know that we can actually edit those points now. Uh, yeah, basically, to select them as you keep shift. So you just click and move your mouse over the point you want to select. Then you'll see, they'll turn blue, and then, you know, they are actually activated. And, uh, yeah, so if you follow us along with the next video, we'll go into more depth on how to actually edit these points. So that's just the basic overview of, uh, the shaped otherwise. Also, if you just get to our website, you guys navigate your softwaretraining.co.za entre zero. You can find this video and more like it also, as you can see. And like I mentioned, we've got a variety of different Softwares we do cover. You can search for an isolated search. Uh, request a training video if you don't find what you're looking for. Otherwise, thanks, guys. For watching until next one