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April 21, 2021
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Middle mouse wheel panning

  • April 21, 2021
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When viewing a comp at 100% or larger, I'm pretty sure I was previously able to use my middle mouse wheel to pan around and inspect details. Rolling the wheel zoomed you in and out, while holding the button down enabled you to pan around when zoomed in. I've lost that functionality, and now I can't navigate around my comp when zoomed in. Is there another way to do this? I'm used to adjusting things at the pixel-level, but now I can only zoom in towards the dead center. Has anyone else experienced this? I've restarted a bunch of times... Thanks.

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    Correct answer Mylenium

    The hand/ pan tool is by default tied to the space bar. That's a basic AE functionality since forever. You better read the online help on such essentials.

     

    Mylenium

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    Strokmatic Innovation
    Participant
    August 22, 2024

    probably you was working in Scribus, that piece of art is far better on UX, it acepts mmb and mscroll+shift/ctrl...

    Mylenium
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    Legend
    April 22, 2021

    The hand/ pan tool is by default tied to the space bar. That's a basic AE functionality since forever. You better read the online help on such essentials.

     

    Mylenium

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    davpow
    Participant
    May 3, 2023

    Not only is this incredibly rude, it's incorrect

    "To momentarily activate the Hand tool, hold down the spacebar, the H key, or the middle mouse button. (The middle mouse button does not activate the Hand tool under a few circumstances, including when the Unified Camera tool is active.)"

    Try to remember why you are here.

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      Gwynble1dd
      Participant
      July 26, 2023

      I also found the answer to be rather rude. I have been using the middle mouse button for panning "since forever". I came across the post because it had stopped working for me. I don't know what the problem was (I didn't have the camera tool active). Anyway, after a restart it works again now. Middle mouse button to temporarily activate the hand tool is a standard feature of AE.

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