Zooming a Specific Amount

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I've never understood how people feel they can answer questions with, "you don't need that" or "it wouldn't be useful."

I was not trying to be condescending and I never said you don't need that, I was just pointing out the way I work with the tools that are available and offering my opinion accurately placing a path point.  Accurate placement of vector paths is extremely important in video if you are working with thin high contrast lines.

I offer a suggestion that may help you be more efficient, even in Photoshop or Illustrator. The goal is to eliminate any extra clicking or changing tools when faced with the problem you are describing. Use the keyboard to change to the pen tool (g), make sure the Composition panel is selected and press the ~ key to make it full screen, press the / key to fit the comp to the screen, click and drag to create your path, hold down the Alt/Option or Ctrl/Cmnd key to temporarily change the pen tool to the selection tool or the convert point tool to adjust your path, press the . or , key to zoom in or out for accuracy, usually to 800%, then hold down the space bar to move around on the comp and adjust the points as necessary making sure they are perfect, then it's the / key to fit the the comp to the screen for a final check. The pen tool never goes away and there's no need to grab any other tools or click anywhere but where you want to create or edit your path. When the path is the way you want it press the ~ key again to go back to the full workspace. This is the same way (slightly different keystrokes) that I work in Illustrator (with snap to pixel always turned when working on illustrations for video) or in Photoshop. I never click in tool bar for any common tasks. The keyboard shortcuts are right there when you hover over a tool and they are easy to learn. I cannot think of a time in the last 15 years that I have typed in a magnification factor except to show somebody in a class that I taught that you could. It is always better to look at the whole pixels when working on anything to do with video and in most cases, anything to do with editing a photo. It's only working in print with vectors where the pixel grid doesn't matter.

As I suggested, if you want to add the ability to type in a specific magnification factor then please file a feature request. If enough people do there is a chance it will be included in a future release.

Odd magnification factors will antialias edges so in practical terms there's not much real usable information that can be gained.

I completely disagree. Would you say that about Photoshop or Illustrator?

I'm creating an animated map. I want to draw a path with the pen tool (that I'll animate using Trim Paths) so I'd like to zoom in on the area in which I'll draw it -- getting as close as possible so I can do detailed work but wouldn't have to scroll or use the Hand tool in the middle of drawing. I think that's pretty darn "practical." No less so than in Photoshop or Illustrator. I've never understood how people feel they can answer questions with, "you don't need that" or "it wouldn't be useful."