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Peter J Kovacs
Peter J Kovacs
Inspiring
November 28, 2012
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Adobe changed how the mousewheel scrolls timeline in CS6...

  • November 28, 2012
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I scroll through the timeline alot using my mousewheel. In premiere CS5.5, if I position the mouse cursor over the timeline and use the mousewheel to scroll... I can get move the timeline from one side of the screen to the other in less than 8 mousewheel turns. And I can do a fast scroll if I position the mouse cursor over the scrollbar under the timeline... less than 3 mouse wheel turns.

This worked great because I can scan through the audio waveforms of a 3 hour lecture really quickly.

However, in Premiere CS6... it now takes 25 spins of the mouse wheel and they disabled fast scrolling.

Is there a way to customize the mousewheel scrolll? Changing the mouse scroll wheel settings in Windows does nothing.

This is the third annoying thing Adobe changed in CS6 that reduced the speed of my workflow.

Grrrr

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    Correct answer excited_Genie16B8

    I feel your pain, as I worked the same way.  Unfortunately, Adobe kind of screwed us mousers with this recent release.  Please let them know you're not happy about it.

    https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

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    DZackCulver
    Participant
    February 23, 2018

    Well crap... I'm having the same problem and saw the thread and hoped for a solution....

    Anyone else get weird jumps? I roll my mouse wheel like 4 or 5 "clicks" of the wheel and it goes along pretty well then on the 6th it jumps like a full second instead of a frame. Its infuriating.

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      -Jaydude-
      Known Participant
      March 13, 2017

      On my Mac the Mighty Mouse works best. It's scroll ball scrolls the Timeline in 1 fingermovement.

      But unfortunately, I have to switch to Windows soon. Did not find a mouse with integrated trackball yet.

      Anyone?

      Michael MTT
      Michael MTT
      Known Participant
      December 1, 2014

      Hardware Solution: I can recomend one of these scroll-mouse-wheels. They are made out of iron or so, thus they keep on spinning a bit if you turn them in free mode, but you can also switch them to click-to-click mode for precission.

      You can buy one at my shop! ...... just kidding

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      Dinamikler
      Participant
      November 27, 2013

      Hi,

      For solution, use this program.

      http://www.desksoft.com/ScrollNavigator_Download.htm

      From Profile, click Add... button and find Adobe Premiere Pro.exe

      Click Get button (hold) and drag Premiere Pro Timeline.

      Bye.

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        Video My Life
        Participating Frequently
        March 29, 2014

        Thanks, wickedFLARE; worked perfect for me.  I'm digging the Cloud and OS X Mavericks...so far.

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        wickedFLARE
        Participant
        December 1, 2012

        Go to preferences > general and there will be an option for timeline scrolling. Set it to Horizontal and you'll be good to go.

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          PVP_Action
          Inspiring
          March 12, 2013

          WoW! I upgrade my Mac and after installing CS6 the scrolling horizontal was gone.... It was killing me.  Thank you so mush for sharing.  Now I can get to work...

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          excited_Genie16B8
          Legend
          March 12, 2013

          Guys, please let our team know your criticisms: http://www.adboe.com/go/wish


          I have, quite early on.

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          excited_Genie16B8Correct answer
          Legend
          November 29, 2012

          I feel your pain, as I worked the same way.  Unfortunately, Adobe kind of screwed us mousers with this recent release.  Please let them know you're not happy about it.

          https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

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