Alignment & Guides For Precise Positioning???

I can't find them anywhere, but there's got to be a way to center, align, add guides, move, etc. objects in FCE, right?
If not, how do professionals align objects (e.g. scaled videos, images, etc.) to precise areas of the screen over and over? That is so I can place a video as the same exact spot on the screen without having to guestimate by eye and touchy mouse where the video should go.
I mean how do you even find the center of the screen, and place object centers there without just eyeballing it? Where are the rulers? (not timeframe rulers)
And why can't you move object wireframes around with arrow keys (like in every other graphic program)? What do you use instead to precisely move objects?
Thanks for any pointers.

Hi -
If all the source material you are placing within the iPad screen is all the same size. then you only need to position the first instance of the image in the screen. Once that is positioned to your liking, click on the clip that you have positioned and type Command + C to copy it.
Next edit the next image you want to appear in the iPad screen, and once it on the timeline, click on it and type Option - V to to bring up the Paste Attributes window. In that window, you can select the attributes you applied to the first clip and paste them to the second. This will instantly position your second clip where you first one was. You can repeat this as necessary.
If you source material is a variety of shapes and sizes, then an easier solution would be to make the iPad graphic image in two forms - one with the default screen and one with the screen made transparent (this can be done in Photoshop and the images saved as PNG files to preserve transparency).
This would allow you to use the image with the transparent screen as a frame to mask slight imprecise placement of the images that are going to be showing in the transparent portion.
MtD

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