Middle mouse to navigate the timeline

This is ridiculous. It would take you so little time to implement this, it's insane that you're forgoing it to focus on much harder, longer tasks. It would bring it in line with YOUR other programs. Why don't you want parioty within your own app ecosystem?

I HATE, hate how clunky it is to move around the timline in Premiere on a PC. Try using your own program for an extended period of time without a Magic Mouse and tell me it's a good experience, you can't. It sucks.

#IfWinActive ahk_exe Adobe Premiere Pro.exe
MButton::
SendInput, {h}
SendInput, {LButton Down}
KeyWait, MButton
SendInput, {LButton Up}
SendInput, {v}
Return

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Can you explain this more? I have no expericen with AutoHotKey. I pasted this into a new AutoHotKey script but it does nothing. 

beautiful, gorgeous, amazing, no notes

Here is AUTOIT code that you can use.
Works great.
ADOBE will never listen to what customers want, thats why its going down as we speak.

#RequireAdmin
Opt("TrayAutoPause", 0)
Opt("MouseCoordMode", 0) ; relative to active window
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) ; partial match for window titles

Global $middleDown = False

While True
    ; Check if active window has "Adobe Premiere Pro" in its title
    If WinActive("Adobe Premiere Pro") Then
        ; Check if middle mouse button is pressed
        If _IsPressed("04") Then
            If Not $middleDown Then
                ; Middle button was just pressed
                $middleDown = True
                Send("h")               ; Press H
                MouseDown("left")       ; Hold left mouse button
            EndIf
        Else
            If $middleDown Then
                ; Middle button was just released
                $middleDown = False
                MouseUp("left")         ; Release left mouse button
                Send("w")               ; Press W
            EndIf
        EndIf
    Else
        ; Reset state if Premiere is not active
        If $middleDown Then
            ; Release left mouse if app loses focus
            $middleDown = False
            MouseUp("left")
        EndIf
    EndIf

    Sleep(25) ; slight delay to avoid excessive CPU usage
WEnd

; Helper function to detect key/mouse press
Func _IsPressed($hexKey)
    Local $dll = DllOpen("user32.dll")
    Local $aRet = DllCall($dll, "short", "GetAsyncKeyState", "int", Dec($hexKey))
    DllClose($dll)
    Return BitAND($aRet[0], 0x8000) <> 0
EndFunc

I would love to be able to do this without having to switch to the Hand tool, and also, I would love to be able to navigate all other scrollable windows via the middle mouse button, such as the effects properties, effects list, keyframes, etc.

Especially editing keyframes is a chore because I have to move away my cursor to adjust the zoom bars below and above so much.

Premiere Pro 2025 does not have a middle-mouse click option for the timeline.

Preferences => Timeline => Timeline Mouse Scrolling 

These options are for horixontal or vertical scrolling -- not the common Click & Drag option that is available in After Effects, and other popular editing programs like Davinci Resolve.

@Christian.Z not good enough 

Preferences --> timeline --> Timeline mouse scrolling

I am blown away that Adobe has yet to implement a Middle Mouse Timeline Drag function.

This hasn't received many upvotes, because most users switch to Davinci Resolve, which has a Middle Mouse, Timeline Drag function.

Sadly, I am forced to edit a project in Premiere Pro, and I am once again dissapointed that after the 4 year hiatus I've taken, the Middle Mouse Timeline Drag function is something that is too confusing for the Adobe Team to implement.

Please, Adobe, editors are begging you -- implement a Middle Mouse Timeline Drag.

You can do it.

Yup, it works! TYVM!