Alignment Grid

Alignment Grid

Draws a configurable grid or crosshair overlay on top of the layer. Useful for composing shots, lining up graphics or lower-thirds against safe areas, checking that text is on a baseline, and verifying that on-air elements are placed consistently across scenes. Has no effect on the rendered output once disabled or set to a fully transparent opacity.

Alignment Grid - Settings

General
Property Description
Grid Layout Which overlay pattern to draw. [default=Crosshair]. Crosshair draws a single pair of centre lines — minimal but enough to confirm dead-centre placement. Grid4x4 and Grid8x8 lay out an evenly spaced grid for more detailed layout work.
Opacity Transparency of the grid overlay, 0–100. [default=100]. 0 hides the grid; 100 makes it fully opaque. Lower values let the underlying image show through — useful when you want the grid as a faint reference rather than a dominant element on screen.

Grid Color

Grid Color — colour of the overlay lines.

Grid Color
Property Description
Color Combined colour picker for the grid lines. Convenience UI wrapper around ColorR, ColorG, and ColorB. Default is white, which gives the highest contrast against most footage.
Reset Reset the grid colour and opacity to their defaults (white, fully opaque).

Grid Adjustment

Grid Adjustment — fine-tune position and line thickness.

Grid Adjustment
Property Description
Position X Horizontal offset of the grid centre, in pixels. [min=-1920, max=1920, default=0]. 0 keeps the grid centred on the layer. Positive shifts right, negative shifts left. Useful when matching a grid to a non-centred element in the composition.
Position Y Vertical offset of the grid centre, in pixels. [min=-1080, max=1080, default=0]. 0 keeps the grid centred. Positive shifts down, negative shifts up.
Grid Thickness Width of the grid lines, in pixels. [min=1, max=10, default=1]. 1 draws hairline reference lines that don't dominate the picture; higher values give a more visible grid that's easier to read on busy footage.
Reset Reset position and thickness to their defaults (centred, 1 px thick).

Inherits from: AbstractOperator, AbstractAudioMetering.

See also: Alignment Grid in Script Engine Objects.