Give momentary keypress functionality to hand and zoom tools

Yep!

 

Making the hand tool or an additional hand tool to be mapped by us as a toggle while down, previous tool when released would be fantastic. Would help with the moving the program monitor around when zoomed in, etc. I've suggested this option previously.

 

Also, PP plays with a Spacebar, but onKeyUp. So, I could also see this happening onSpacebarDown and holding. Just like AE.

 

I didn't see this thread at the time, but 50 upvotes is good. Keep up-voting this thread, the big number to the left of the thread title.

Can we just get this sorted already? And while you're at it, make zoom and pan work in every window (source, effects controls, media bin etc etc) - it just speeds everything up.

Yes! 100%!

By the way, in Pr 15.1 (beta) the hand tool can now be temporarily invoked by click-holding a mouse's scroll wheel!!!! BUT... ONLY in the new Text window for creating captions. Huh??? Why Adobe, why?! AE has had this basic functionality for ages, so it's high time Pr gets this basic functionality as well, in every area of the program that makes sense rather than just in the new Text window!

Make sure you check out my FR for this and vote here: https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/42781670-give-the-mouse-scroll-wheel-the-same-basic-functio

Still hoping this will happen one day... as well as doing something with the middle mouse button....

Dude, yes. This. It just occurred to me today that navigating the timeline is the most frustrating things getting in the way of what I want to do. I thought by getting a giant monitor to give it a ton of window space, that I would magically not need to zoom and pan and scroll around the timeline as much, but dang was I wrong...

I noticed that I always had this weird habit of holding the spacebar down when trying to adjust things in the timeline and therefor end up popping all over the place, and I had this epiphany that I keep doing that simply because I'm used to being able to smoothly navigate photoshop that way!

I wish I had the ability to just hold Z + m1 and just drag left and right to zoom back and forth, and hold space bar to swipe the canvas. That's what's missing from my timeline experience. How can I get that sort of experience?

I was thinking maybe like a ball mouse for my keyboard hand would be a potential solution, but how do we bring that sort of navigation to the average user?

I feel like it's a big missed opportunity efficiency wise, so that I can stay focused on the edit.

Hey are you on windows or mac? When I was working on a mac and on a wacom the thing that single-handedly changed my experience was a program called SmartScroll. It gives you the ability to have drag and flick scrolling WITH INERTIA. Basically iphone scrolling but with a mouse. So I assigned one of my wacom buttons to middle-click and then middle-click to the drag and flick trigger within SmartScroll. BOOM your wacom pen is suddenly an iphone scrolly scroll in every application and it's hands down the thing I miss most about windows. Than and better touch tool. Good luck!

In Cinema 4D, holding down a key to temporarily activate another tool & revert back to the first tool upon release is called Sticky Keys. I'd love sticky keys throughout Premiere.

Whichever way its implemented, please make the hand and zoom tools work in bins as well! As a wacom user, it's a workflow downer to have to grab scrollbars in bins when in my timeline in can switch to the hand tool and quickly & easily drag from anywhere in the window. The bins should be just as easy.

Ideally Wacom's Pan/Scroll functionality could be mapped to the timeline the same way a Macbook's track pad is, which does allow you to scroll horizontally and vertically simultaneously with two fingers.