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Dave5D6D
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September 15, 2020
Question

zoom timeline should zoom to the playhead

  • September 15, 2020
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I'm finding it extremely cumbersome and workflow slowing with regard to the timeline zoom.

as it is, it seems to zoom generally to the center of the timeines duration and not zoom to center of playhead.

 

the problem that is slowing me with this is if i have the timeline wide to view most of the timeline and jump playhead to front of the timeline and zoom, it zooms sortof toward the playhead but it then zooms in to lose th eplayhead to the left of the viewer and off screen making you have to then use the slider to pan the timeline left to get to the playhead (which is right where i want to zoom to a 2fm take to edit.)  this slows workflow and makes more mousing.

 

i think like most major editors should zoom to center of playhead instead.

 

thanks

 

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    Dave5D6DAuthor
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    September 21, 2020
    thanks, what i see at least in adobe like premiere is it does the same with
    no timeline selection. it will do the same, zoom the playhead off screen.
    in premiere it will zoom to the playhead (or clip i guess) if a clip is
    selected in timeline. this is totally acceptable. for ch animator it
    would be same, totally acceptable if it zooms to a selected clip or
    playhead. there is so much zooming in to 2frm records to be zooming a
    bunch.

    i'll use the page up/down you mentioned, maybe that makes it ok. i'd stay
    with the request though

    thanks for the clarifications and looking at it.

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    Scott_Ch
    Adobe Employee
    September 21, 2020

    Hey folks, thanks for taking the time to post this! 

    The current zoom behavior tries to keep the playhead in the same position horizontally when you zoom in or out. It should never cause the playhead to move off-screen; if it does that's a bug (and I just found a case where it does - I'm filing a bug report). One thing to note is that you can use the keyboard to scroll the timeline, which can be handy for fine-grained navigation. PgUp and PgDown scroll a screenful at a time, and cmd-PgUp/Down (or alt on Windows) scroll in smaller increments.

    There are definitely editors that center the playhead on zoom in/out - that can be problematic too. Possibly enough people prefer it that we should add a setting. We'll talk about that here too. Thanks!

    UltraEverything
    UltraEverything
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    September 16, 2020

    Seconded!

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