[Now Released]: Improvements in Zoom and Pan behavior along with introduction of global shortcuts

I'm someone who has screamed loudly and often about the "random zooming" in the program/source panels - particularly when using the Apple Magic Mouse. This goes for the same issue in other Adobe applications as well. The new options in the latest beta versions are very helpful and the only reason I'm editing in Premiere Beta. I like being able to quickly "zoom in" on the program panel when making small adjustments to text, so the zoom function is a convenience. However, as someone who assigns keystroke shortcuts to a lot of my functionality, I would like to be able to toggle on or off the pan/zoom function in the program panel with a keystroke. I'm hoping Adobe gives us this option. Having to constantly hit Command-Option-0 to Zoom to Fit is not ideal.

For the life of me, I can't set Zoom to Fit or Zoom to 100% in the Mac Beta to Control+Option+Z which is the shortcut I use in 25.1. Any reason why they could be happening?

Thanks for re-opening the discussion on scroll-wheel behaviour. I feel the new global command to 'fit size' is great and is an overall improvement.

The change to scroll wheel now panning up and down however is not. I find no use for this, since panning using middle mouse button exists and feels more efficient and useful. I understand this is made in consideration to how trackpads perform, but ask yourselves this: are most of your users on trackpads (editing on the go) or are the majority probably (and preferably) working using a mouse. This change is a step backwards I believe for the majority of users.

For me the ideal behaviour would be to:

- global zoom using default scroll-wheel

- free pan using middle mouse button

- modifier key + scroll to pan up/down or left/right

- another modifier key + scroll to step through time frame-by-frame

The last I mentioned I believe is currently truly absent. I am aware you can navigate the mouse cursor the the time-indicator beneath the monitors and scroll there to step through frame-by-frame. That is however a complete waste of time and terribly inefficient when using the scroll wheel to help in the task of masking. When manually masking you want to be able to zoom in the monitor, pan it freely around and use a modifier key + scroll to jump frame-to-frame. You don't want to have to take the cursor away from the shape you are manipulating just to jump to a next or previous frame. Masking is one (if not the most) of the most important features that this scrolling function is made for. For me at least, it is actually almost the only reason why I am zooming in or out of the monitors. Improving the experience from this point of view would be most helpful!

Hey @Mike McCarthy, your posts have been right on. You did miss the "Show Scroll Bars" on the wrench menu.

I thought we were going to wait for the new implementation with something useable, like the zoom feature as it was a 10 days ago-ish. as of build 119 we still have the most non-sensical option, pan up and down! ? 

So, can we have the zoom back while you implement the next part of this.

I agree with @Shebbe that the AE implementation is optimal, and should be replicated in Premiere as closely as possible for consistency. (But they have spacebar for panning around, Premiere will need an alternate modifier.)  And I still think there needs to be a clear way of communicating to the user when they aren't seeing the entire frame.  This used to be denoted by the presence of scroll bars, and has not been replaced when that was redesigned.

So AE beta published their implementation of smooth zoom.

What instantly jumps out is that they offer user preference to a degree.

I hope you take note and provide comparable options.

I passionately hate the new behavior. 

• Default Scrolling behavior should be Global Zoom. The old "Zoom around mouse pointer" behavior was working against me when drawing masks. Global Zoom would be what most people expect. At least that's what people think when I'm doing training.
• Press and hold a modifier key to zoom around the pointer. I don't really care which one, but why not use the same one as AE?

After Effects got this right. No need to reinvent the wheel. Use the same default behaviors as AE, and feel free to add other behaviors with other modifier keys. Just don't mess with the defaults. 

Love the new Zoom to Fit commands, though! 

We appreciate your feedback on this feature. After the previous change in mouse functionality, we've worked hard to overcome some longstanding limitations in Premiere Pro in order to enable improved trackpad interactivity. While we've made good progress in enabling trackpad pinch-to-zoom and swipe to scroll in either direction, Premiere Pro remains unable to distinguish between different devices in order to allow a mouse to have different mappings than a trackpad or pen and tablet.

As a result, our effort to enable pan/scroll and zoom with every pointing device required us to adopt the Lightroom mapping for scroll, pan, and zoom due to the need for strict consistency among every device. However, since feedback has been poor, we're rethinking that solution and contemplating a more comprehensive fix which would require substantially more time, but that will finally allow each type of pointing device to have specific pan and zoom mappings optimized to that device.

We'll continue in beta for a while longer to gather additional feedback from as many customers as possible, and if the consensus is that people would rather go back to using the previous mouse behavior while waiting for a better solution, then that's what we'll do. It's important to us to deliver the best experience we can, and we appreciate that these kinds of changes can be painful so we only want to ship them if the improvement is clear. Thanks for your patience...

As a trackpad user this gets the thumbs up from me but why is panning so juddery? Should be as smooth as using the Hand tool.

This is a shocking bad "improvement."  It took me a while to comprehend what happened, but it appears this change was driven by trackpad functionality, and mouse users just weren't fully considered in the design.  I think nearly all mouse users will agree that scrolling to 'pan" (tilt) vertically in the viewport is a useless mapping, so what should it do?  Someone suggested scrolling could advance frames in time, but it was pointed out that can be done by moving the cursor lower to the mini timeline.  So zoom is the most logical option, and it matches AE's behavior for years.  And the code exists, because it was working last week.  (Also, I wouldn't be unhappy with keeping CTRL and ALT for the zoom option, and scroll frames in time, but you lose consistency with AE, and the current vertical pan is terrible.)

Now removing the CTRL+Drag function for panning was also removed, (replaced for trackpad users with this new 'scrolling' but not for mouse users) unless you count middle click dragging, which many people don't have access to.   So adding middle click drag is fine for those who have it, but I see no benefit of removing the CTRL drag support.  (I can see how middle drag, plus the previous scrolling zoom functionality, could allow full viewport manipulation with a single clicking wheel, but it is not lost on me that Adobe is giving mouse users that functionality with the middle finger;)