# Changing or detecting the registration point

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-or-detecting-the-registration-point/183980>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 31, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-or-detecting-the-registration-point/183980 "2006-03-31T17:44:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![voxecho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@voxecho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/voxecho)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-or-detecting-the-registration-point/183980/1 "2006-03-31T17:44:55Z")

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Can the registration point of an MC be detected programatically? Can it be changed? i am assuing that changing it is simply a matter of shifting the contents over, but without knowing before hand which way to shift, and what is in the MC that could turn out to be a problem.

-E

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**Author:** ![JoshuaJonah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/joshuajonah/32/1775_2.png) [@JoshuaJonah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaJonah)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-or-detecting-the-registration-point/183980/2 "2006-03-31T17:46:55Z")

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better question: Why don’t you know the registration point of the movie before hand?

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**Author:** ![voxecho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@voxecho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/voxecho)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-or-detecting-the-registration-point/183980/3 "2006-03-31T18:38:32Z")

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I don’t know the registration point, because it’s an open ended import. users may import anything, which lends the possibility that they could have made the registration point in the center of the MC.

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**Author:** ![JoshuaJonah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/joshuajonah/32/1775_2.png) [@JoshuaJonah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JoshuaJonah)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-or-detecting-the-registration-point/183980/4 "2006-03-31T18:49:35Z")

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what do you mean by open ended import? if you load something with LoadMovie, the registration point is always in the top left corner.

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**Author:** ![voxecho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@voxecho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/voxecho)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-or-detecting-the-registration-point/183980/5 "2006-03-31T19:06:20Z")

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Ok, i can’t really explain it all in detail, so suffice it to say that the most importent question to me is if it can be done, not why i am doing it.

sorry to be curt, but i have a need to know, and so far i am finding myself explaining… do you happen to know how to check the registration point?

-E

> [@Defective](#):
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> what do you mean by open ended import? if you load something with LoadMovie, the registration point is always in the top left corner.

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**Author:** ![999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/c5a1d2/32.png) [@999](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/999)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-or-detecting-the-registration-point/183980/6 "2006-03-31T19:19:31Z")

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Dont know if this will help but its the closest thing I know of to what I think your looking for: [http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70919](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=70919)