Instead of jumping in intervals when zooming, I'd very much prefer a smooth means of zooming to go along with the smooth panning we have. Its one of the experience pleasantries I have with other apps and wish it were in AE as well.
Its nice for when dealing with details. Roto, checking key edges, etc.
If it can 'fit up to' (i.e. 63.4%) Why can't we just choose? Annoying me for years! I just wan't to be able to fit the canvas the way I want... 100% and then 50% is as huge increment! I just want to say 80% and lock it there, with a little great around it... I just can't understand why this is still an issue....
Smoother Zooming in + out by hand, for example by holding alt + middle mouse button, would also be a great addition to this to make quick fine adjustments to the canvas
so, the reason they don't do this, is because the Nearest Neighbor scaling that is used for the window, only works for integer scaling. (x1, x2, x3, x4 etc.) With a nearest/bilinear hybrid (also know as sharp bilinear) your pixel edges get blended together. Combined with a perfectly smooth zoom ability, you'd never be seeing what your canvas actually looks like.... just a fuzzier version of it. Here you can see a full explanation, (though it is to do with scaling within AE, not scaling of the main window itself.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKV1JFE0_Nk
Anyway, Adobe, if you do put this feature in, for the love of God, put in the option to turn it off, and go back to the way it works now. Many of us do NOT want a smooth zoom.
Echoing other comments, but to put it in the language of the UI in other products: scrubby zoom in the comp/footage/layer windows. I go and work on something in Ps or Ai where I can easily zoom in and out with mouse/tablet input, and immediately I come back and have to bang my head on the stepwise zoom in Ae.
Someone is having a lot of fun in Adobe about this weird decision of not offering custom zoom, the soft obviously can, the users obviously need it, every all other soft offers it, so only conclusion is a very old and very grumpy exec is blocking it. Waiting for the ghost of the past Xmast.
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