Please note: This feature has been updated, please refer to the ‘Updates’ section at the end of this post. Whether you’re trying to move titles or graphics more precisely, checking a clip for unwanted artifacts, or getting a closer look at a mask that you’re drawing, starting with Adobe Premiere Pro 24.4 Beta you can freely zoom into and out of the Program, Source, and Reference monitors quickly and conveniently using the scroll behaviour of your mouse, trackpad, or pen and tablet. Additionally, scroll bars appear to show you the position of your content within each Monitor. Details of this feature’s use include: When using mouse scroll wheels, magic mouse scrolling, and tablet scrolling, zooming is anchored to the centre of the monitor view. For these devices, holding Opt/Alt + Scroll lets you zoom into the pointer’s position onscreen, so you can zoom directly into any detail you choose. When using trackpad pinch, zooming is anchored to the cursor. In this case, holding Opt/Alt + pinch lets you zoom while keeping the image centred to the monitor view. Holding the Shift key while zooming with a mouse scroll wheel, trackpad, and wacom pen accelerates zoom so you can get where you need to be faster. Panning is also supported using Mouse Button 3, aka the scroll/middle button. At this time, no panning is available when using a trackpad. However, you can use the 'H' keyboard shortcut to select the Hand tool with which to pan the image freely. Updates The following changes appear post Premiere Pro Beta 24.4 Build 44: Zooming is always anchored to the position of the cursor, so you can easily position your pointer on or near a detail you’re interested in to zoom straight to it. This is true for all devices including Mouse, Touchpad and Pen/Tablet. Holding Opt/Alt while scrolling lets you zoom while anchoring the image to the center of the monitor view. Decimal zoom percentages are rounded to the nearest integer. To maximize the Monitoring area while providing a consistent behavior, scroll bars have been removed from the view monitor, but this has no effect on panning. To pan vertically and horizontally, click and drag Mouse Button 3, or press 'H' to select the Hand tool with which to move the content.

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Now in Beta: Continuous Zoom and Pan now available in Premiere Pro

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 24, 2024
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Please note: This feature has been updated, please refer to the ‘Updates’ section at the end of this post.

Whether you’re trying to move titles or graphics more precisely, checking a clip for unwanted artifacts, or getting a closer look at a mask that you’re drawing, starting with Adobe Premiere Pro 24.4 Beta you can freely zoom into and out of the Program, Source, and Reference monitors quickly and conveniently using the scroll behaviour of your mouse, trackpad, or pen and tablet. Additionally, scroll bars appear to show you the position of your content within each Monitor.

Details of this feature’s use include:

When using mouse scroll wheels, magic mouse scrolling, and tablet scrolling, zooming is anchored to the centre of the monitor view. For these devices, holding Opt/Alt + Scroll lets you zoom into the pointer’s position onscreen, so you can zoom directly into any detail you choose.
When using trackpad pinch, zooming is anchored to the cursor. In this case, holding Opt/Alt + pinch lets you zoom while keeping the image centred to the monitor view.
Holding the Shift key while zooming with a mouse scroll wheel, trackpad, and wacom pen accelerates zoom so you can get where you need to be faster.
Panning is also supported using Mouse Button 3, aka the scroll/middle button.
At this time, no panning is available when using a trackpad. However, you can use the 'H' keyboard shortcut to select the Hand tool with which to pan the image freely.

Updates

The following changes appear post Premiere Pro Beta 24.4 Build 44:

Zooming is always anchored to the position of the cursor, so you can easily position your pointer on or near a detail you’re interested in to zoom straight to it. This is true for all devices including Mouse, Touchpad and Pen/Tablet. Holding Opt/Alt while scrolling lets you zoom while anchoring the image to the center of the monitor view.
Decimal zoom percentages are rounded to the nearest integer.
To maximize the Monitoring area while providing a consistent behavior, scroll bars have been removed from the view monitor, but this has no effect on panning. To pan vertically and horizontally, click and drag Mouse Button 3, or press 'H' to select the Hand tool with which to move the content.

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picodesic

Participant

Love this behavior with my wacom intuous pan/zoom navigation assigned button in win10. Won't be switching back to regular premiere pro until this is implemented in the stable release.

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RobertKjettrup

Known Participant

I really like that i can pan around the viewer with middle drag, but is a pretty feature breaking bug introduced.
Rulers and Guides dont follow the panning, but will stay fixed in the panel, so that makes any guides you setup totally useless if you pan the viewer even the slightest 😞
This is broken in both the official release 24.6.1 and the 25.1.0.x20 beta

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Not seeing this: guides/rulers follow the panning/zooming with the middle mouse and the Hand tool.

Windows / build 25.1.23 / 24.6.1

Does not seem to work on fit only on zoom in/out.

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RobertKjettrup

Known Participant

oh... yes, i see that its only a problem when using the "Fit" zoom level, the default zoom mode in Premiere 😉
It works as expected for all the predefined zoom levels, like 50%, 75%, 100% 200% etc. so there at least is a workround until it get fixed.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

I just noticed in Beta 25.1.0.8 that the wrench settings in the Program and Source Monitors has a "Show scrollbars" option that turns scroll bars back on.

@Palash Sanjay Kotgirwar Is that the way it will now work? There'll be some happy users over in the regular forum once it hits the Release versions.

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Shebbe

Community Expert

While I think this is welcome it's still flawed imo. It would be better to not have the option but just always show scroll bars whenever the image is bigger than the panel itself. This would allow visual cues as to whether parts of your image are cropped assisting both the people that don't want to see the scroll bars when the image is set to fit and those that do want it for panning when zoomed in. This is also how it works in Photoshop afaik. Clear and simple.

Mike McCarthy

Community Expert

I agree that there needs to be some visual indicator that your view of the image is being cropped by the edge of the monitor panel, and scroll bars used to serve this purpose. Maybe having an overlayed diagram showing the image frame and the monitor frame whenever some of the sequence image is being cropped. Ideally it would also allow you to navigate the image by dragging the yellow monitor frame, for when you are zoomed far in for detail work. I am not stuck on it overlaying the image, but I am not sure where else this UI element would fit, and it needs to be close to the program monitor to be a functional warning.

MyerPj

Community Expert

In testing for another post here, I just found out something ODD, the Hand tool works as expected to move the view around, however, if the hand tool is selected, then the middle button does not work as expected, all looks fine, but the view won't change. Switch back to the selection tool, and the middle button works.

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Alex36996663u3vg

Participant

So it seems like toggling the hot key for Hand Tool prevents it from functioning in this new capacity.

I'm also using a Magic Mouse, so the mouse wheel isn't available as a middle button.

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Alex36996663u3vg

Participant

The Hand Tool (H) is not working in the Program monitor for me when I try to pan vertically or horizontally. It make the fist as if its grabing the frame but doesn't move it. It works as it should in the Source mointor and the Reference monitor but not the Program. Help!

MyerPj

Community Expert

What version and OS are you on? I'm using 25.0 b24 and Win 11 23H2.

It's working for me.

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Alex36996663u3vg

Participant

Sorry should have included specs:

Working on Premiere v 24.5

Hardware Specifications

MacBook Pro 16 in
M3 Max
64 GB RAM
1TB SSD (working off a 4TB SanDisk SSD)
MacOS Sonoma 14.5

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Samresh5EC8

Participant

Its a great feature, will faster our editing workflow, thanks

Swandive stream

Inspiring

Excellent feature!

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getho

Inspiring

you might be aware of a program called photoshop. People have literally decades of muscle memory pressing the space bar to get the hand tool to move around an image. How many "FF sake's" will ring out over the next few months as people find the exact frame to draw a mask only to lose it as they hit the space bar trying to scroll round the image.
Oh and middle mouse is already doing something in my OS.

If adobe introduces something like this they need to have a unified policy so that muscle memory is preserved across the suite

at very least you need the option of a modifer to scroll - alt crl shift or a comabination of all three. THats where my left hand lives, I dont want to have to hunt for the H just to scroll.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

I often find myself pressing the spacebar+selection tool ...............

MyerPj

Community Expert

Yes a modifer key to get the Hand tool, or a toogle shortcut for the hand tool and release to go back to the previously selected tool.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

I do miss the sliders. Find the middle mouse somewhat clumsy to use.

Most likely the sliders won't be coming back, maybe holding down a modifier key that will change the selection tool into the Hand tool.

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