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richardd57355141
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August 12, 2017
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Alt + Scroll Wheel to Zoom in on Playhead in Timeline.

  • August 12, 2017
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As mentioned in this thread https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2082047​ when I use Alt+scroll wheel on mouse to zoom in my timeline, the playhead moves out of the area that has been zoomed into. That is to say that the playhead remains stationary at whatever time it was, but the area that is being zoomed into moves, generally (likely always) to later in the video. I spend a lot of time scroll back to find the playhead.

I am using windows 10 with a 4k display at 200% scaling. No amount of defaulting to 100% scaling, setting resolution to 1080 makes a difference.

In the above mentioned thread I am having the exact issue user Ferdinand83 is having and has shown in video proof. The question was marked answered by an Adobe staffer that obviously did not understand the question. It IS a bug, and it is a problem.

This is a MAJOR issue in workflow as it breaks concentration when zooming in to make a small edit.

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    eikonoklastes
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    August 13, 2017

    I have the same bug on my system. It's not an issue for me because I don't use Alt+Wheel to zoom, but the problem definitely exists.

    The point of higher resolution monitors is more screen real estate.  You negate that with anything over 100%

    The point of any monitor is also to be able to read stuff. On smaller monitors (around 27") running at 4K, the UI is too tiny to be useable and you need to scale it up, especially if your eyesight has taken a beating over 15 years of peering into monitors.

    Premiere should be able to handle this and work correctly under diferent scaling settings. In any event, this doesn't seem to be related to display scaling because the issue occurs even at 100% scaling.

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      richardd57355141Author
      Participant
      August 13, 2017

      eikonoklastes  wrote

      I have the same bug on my system. It's not an issue for me because I don't use Alt+Wheel to zoom, but the problem definitely exists.

      The point of higher resolution monitors is more screen real estate.  You negate that with anything over 100%

      The point of any monitor is also to be able to read stuff. On smaller monitors (around 27") running at 4K, the UI is too tiny to be useable and you need to scale it up, especially if your eyesight has taken a beating over 15 years of peering into monitors.

      Premiere should be able to handle this and work correctly under diferent scaling settings. In any event, this doesn't seem to be related to display scaling because the issue occurs even at 100% scaling.

      Amen to all points. What do you do other than alt+scroll wheel to zoom? Using the sliders at the bottom of the timeline just seems clunky to me, but at least they do maintain focus on the playhead.

      Edit: and why does Adobe feel the need to moderate replies in a thread? A "report abuse" function should serve well to deal with spam and trolling. Not customer-friendly at all!    

      Ann Bens
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      Ann BensCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      August 13, 2017

      Alas, all post go through moderation, forum policy. Adobe gets a fair amount of spammers, scammers etc.

      Also might not want to quote entire posts, this will keep the thread, nice and clean and easy readable. Thanks Ann - Mod.

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      excited_Genie16B8
      Legend
      August 12, 2017

      First, you need to leave Display Scaling at 100%.  The point of higher resolution monitors is more screen real estate.  You negate that with anything over 100%

      Next, Alt+Scroll will zoom in on the mouse pointer position, not the playhead.

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        richardd57355141Author
        Participant
        August 13, 2017

        Jim,

        Please review the video posted in the thread I linked and specified. Alt+scroll wheel zooms in on neither the playhead or the mouse pointer. It zooms in toward the end of the video. Ex, my playhead is at 1 minute in a 10 minute timeline, with my mouse sitting right on it. Scrolls wheel moves forward and back in the timeline, alt+scroll wheel zooms in toward the end of the timeline, not toward the playhead or current mouse position, exactly as is demonstrated in the specified comment on the linked thread.     

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