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tomatosoup75
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January 24, 2023
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Give momentary keypress functionality to hand and zoom tools

  • January 24, 2023
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Hold H to momentarily activate the Hand tool, move the timeline around, let go of H to return to the previous tool.

Same action for the Zoom tool.

At the present time, you have to reselect the tool when you're done moving around.

HUGE advantage for those of us who use Wacmon tablets and don't have a scroll wheel, as there is no other way to easily move in the timeline. The only way to achieve it with my Wacom, is to hold my top button and scroll the pen up & down - left & right doesn't function in Premiere. And it only registers for the portion of the screen that the timeline window takes up.

Also the same way it functions in Photoshop, it's a very natural way to interface with the application.

12 replies

TaranVH
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
An interesting predicament. Your solution would work, IF Adobe ever implements it. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
So I wrote an AHK script that will give you, as a Wacom user, some decent scroll wheel functionality.
https://github.com/TaranVH/2nd-keyboard/blob/master/Taran's%20Premiere%20Mods/F12_F11_scroller.ahk

Then I thought, maybe he doesn't know how to use AHK.
So I made a little video just to show you! (And others)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHbG8HYRwcI
dparsons85
Legend
January 24, 2023
I would prefer holding the space bar to temporary change the cursor into the hand tool so it works the same way across all Adobe applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects already do this). Timelines are too large not to have this function and Windows is terrible for horizontal or diagonal scrolling.