Now in Beta: Scroll Bars available in Program and Source monitors

I too wish panels didn't need to be active to make zoom/fit keyboard shortcut work.

I suggest making the shortcut application-wide rather than specific to each panel. While it’s possible that a user might have both the Source and Program monitors zoomed and only want to reset one, this seems like a rare use case. In most cases, it’s likely to be one or the other (mainly the Program monitor).

p.s. I still want a way to pan using a trackpad. Hand tool isn't cutting it!

At least those that want it have the option now but I still think this can be massively improved.

I'd love to see an option to not show scroll bars when the view is < or = to fit but show them when > panel size. This allows you to visually clearly see whether you are viewing a crop of the image or full canvas. Having scroll bars always hidden or visible does not inform you where the edges are.

Glad to see the stepped zoom via keyboard shortcuts is fixed again. Still whish panels didn't need to be active to make zoom/fit keyboard shortcuts work. But that's a larger mechanism consideration. It could be nice if mouse hover would allow for such behavior so you don't have to switch active panel from timeline to program/source monitor and back to make keyboard shortcuts function in their respective area.

In After Effects the currently opened viewer panel always listens to your zoom commands when the Composition Timeline panel is active. It prioritizes the Composition's viewer when multiple viewers like footage or layer are also opened next to it. It is much faster to work with than how it's set up in Premiere Pro.

I hope this can be improved.

Have you changed the behavior of mouse middle-wheel scrolling?

Many users do not want to 'zoom' with the middle wheel, they want to scrub. Which you can but only if you are very precise in where you put the mouse cursor first.

And if you never want the image zoom, this is maddening.