I'm trying to do some deep zooming and positioning on a clip, and having a really hard time.

When adding a "Position and Zoom" effect (or rotate and shear, same deal), there seem to be two ways to position a zoomed clip:

1) By manually editing the X and Y boxes (cumbersome - and doesn't support mouse wheel either, while zoom percentage box does)
2) By using the mouse to drag the "middle red dot" around.

However... When the clip is zoomed such that the middle red dot is missing... is there a way to still drag the clip with my mouse to reposition? I can't seem to find the keyboard shortcut to do it! If I try something reasonable like "Ctrl-Click", I DO see a the cursor turn into a hand icon, and it gives me false hope, but then nothing happens. The only way I've been able to do it is by manually typing in X and Y values, and that's just really unpleasant to use.

Can someone plz point me to the correct way to do this? (and at where I can find it in the manual because I couldn't locate it).

Thanks!

Ones the white cross is out of the monitor view you can't grab the clip with the mouse any more.

Workaround: hover with the mouse over the x or y and it gets a finger pointer. Click and you can change the value of that axis by left/right moving the mouse.

For some reason, I recall the mouse wheel over the boxes not working for those fields, but I re-tested and it looks like it actually does work (though no icon change).

Too bad about no ability to drag, but this workaround will work in a pinch.

Thanks!