P: Ability to reassign Timeline Playback Shortcut

I wonder why there is no way we could change the animation shortcut for Timeline (Frames)..

This is causing me so much trouble when I am editing the shape of the current frame, because I have to hold Space to move around the canvas and many times it plays the animation causing the timeline to move to a different frame than the one that I am editing.

I am using Latest Photoshop 2022 v23.1.0 on Windows 10.

Hello there,

I tried to make a frame animation, but I noticed really early that there is one problem. When I want to pan around my work, I press the Spacebar, but that also triggers the playbutton in the timeline and my animation starts playing, which is really distracting and annoying. So I have to pause the animation and find the frame I was working on over and over... There is no way to turn this off, so I would really REALLY REALLY appreciate a way to somehow turn this off. This seems to be a problem to a lot of users since 2019, and some of them already reported this issue, but it still exists...

So yeah, TLDR: An option to...

-change the hotkey for the timeline playbutton and/or a checkmark to freeze the animation in the timeline settings.

-change the hotkey for the hand-panning.

Thanks in advance.

-Patrick

Another thing: what about slightly readjusting one's habits and get benefits?

I tried the trick I just shared, but I also noticed that the spacebar does trigger a play if you just briefly hit it...

BUT, if I make a long press on the spacebar, I do get the hand tool that lets me pan in my image...

Another solution would be to use the H key to trigger the hand tool, giving you also a temporary way to navigate in your image, plus the "birds eyes view" that lets you pan in your image like in the navigator panel...

Hi, I found this tip by Pete Green: 

"Double-click the Timeline panel tab which will minimize the timeline tab. From there you can use Space to toggle the move tool.
Double-click the timeline panel tab again to bring it back up and the video shortcuts should work again."

If they wont fix it, is there a plug-in that anyone knows of that could assist? This is infuriating. Makes using this to animate nearly impossible.

I use spacebar quite a bit so having it activate the timeline playback is pretty inconvenient

Could we have any answer or clarity on this? Makes the whole timeline workflow unworkable.

Please fix asap, simple and necessary.

Please fix this problem as I had been waiting a long time for it be rectified. This is a very powerful feature in Photoshop but unfortunately not usable for this very small issue that many are facing. I hope it will be fixed at the earliest.

Dear Abby,

Pressing the spacebar while creating frame animations in Photoshop causes the animation to start playing. The spacebar is one of the most frequently used keys in Photoshop for navigation purposes so having it also perform this other function is annoying as balls. Can we please get a way to change that function or disable it altogether? And yes I already know you can go to Edit>Keyboard Shortcuts>Panel Menus to adjust the timeline hotkeys, but this one in particular isn't there.

Thanks,

Sleepless in Seattle.