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Center Timeline on Playhead?

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January 16, 2020
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I use the goto next marker keyboard command, and oftent the playhead will be at the edge of the timeline....which is not what I need.

How can I center the timeline on the playhead after I hit goto next marker?

Thank you!

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TheVisionaryOne

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I wish this were a feature as well...I'm surprised it's not already a feature in Premiere. Seems like an extremely basic and necessary thing. There's the option of toggling on "Smooth Scroll" in Timeline settings, which just makes the timeline ALWAYS centered on the playhead. The result is it looks like the playhead stays fixed in the center of your timeline, while your timeline is the thing that scrolls instead. It's extremely nauseating and I couldn't imagine trying to actually work with that mode.

The closest solution I've found is just holding Shift and scrolling my mouse wheel up/down as needed. Not sure if that will help with your situation, since you're potentially dealing with very large distances between markers where it wouldn't be practical to scroll.

Jon.M.

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Please excuse me if this is redundant or doesn't apply appropriately...

For me, the best solution is (as my left hand consistently hovers over the keyboard anyway...) with timeline panel selected, I just hit zoom shortcuts -/_ or =/+ in the numbers "row", (upper right of the p key). These zoom short cuts always center to the playhead so even when not centered, it centers as soon as I start zooming in and out via these shortcuts. None of the hot key/cursor scrollings have this centering orientation to the playhead. it's possible with no mouse input and used the arrow keys to jump to edits, or (cntrl/shft M) to bounce and zoom all around your edit or marker spots and make refinements to timings/trims or mods to keyframes, pop down to the next trans or next marker via the ARROW or shortcut for "go to next marker" SHFT M (as you know) and it is remaining centered on the play head, zoomming in and out with the -/+ keys will force the zoom to remain centered on the play head with minus/plus in number row. All good and the mouse is not involved.

Jon.M.

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I didn't realize one cannot edit a post here. I'll write and review futures posts prior to posting here from now on to aid in elimination of misspellings, bad grammar, and indications I work for the department of redundancy department.

eurekam

Participating Frequently

Hello,
I've jut found your post, and I'm asking for excatly the same feature:
- Just a shortcut to center the playhead on the timeline when it's reaching the edges. And I don't want tu use 'smooth scroll' option. But it does not seem to exist yet. Adobe, please, that would be simple to add that, otherwise, as mentionned, we need to press 2 keys...

Peru Bob

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Post here where the Adobe engineers read each thread:

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro

eurekam

Participating Frequently

Thanks for your answer, I'll do it. Regards,

Richard TOULON

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Hi,

It's a matter of zoom . If you're zoomed enough it works fine.

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hunterp75995293Author

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We are not talking the same language. "works fine"? no....I need to stay at my current zoom level and also keypress to the next marker so I can make an edit AT that zoom level.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Zoom (the timeline, not your media) in or out and then back to your original zoom and it will center it.

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