Timeline zooms all the way in again after zooming out to max with mouse scroll

Report · Sep 18, 2019

Hey there!

I cannot for the life of me figure this out and I have scoured the preferences, settings and all the adobe forums looking for an answer, perhaps someone here knows the trick!

Formerly, I used to be able to zoom in and out of the timeline using Option+Mouse Scroll just fine. If I zoomed out all the way, the timeline would stay in a maximum-zoomed-out state. This was great because I could quickly zoom all the way out to the timeline with a quick scroll of the mouse and then navigate from there.

Now, all of a sudden, when I scroll zoom-out too quickly, it's as if the timeline gets to max zoom-out and then zooms right back in to Maximum zoom-in (Sorry for all the zooms!). This causes a infinte zoom out cycle. I'm not sure if this is a setting, a bug or something to do with my computer, but it doesn't seem to happen on every computer, nor does it happen on every project as far as I can tell!

Just wondering if anyone has seen this or knows whats going on here, I'd greatly appreciate a push in the right direction!

EDIT: I have made a video to demonstrate the issue, hope this helps!

Report · Jul 30, 2024

This bug is still going. I've been dealing with it for 2 years. I'm on windows using a desktop and a mouse that has no issues with scrolling. Holding alt+scroll wheel will often jump to being fully zoomed in after zooming out a bit. I then have to scroll ALL the way out from being completely zoomed in. It's exceedingly annoying for something I'm expected to pay $70 a month for, and given the entirty of my student license under my University I've been having this issue, I think I'm highly disincentivized by this handling of a simple and very annoying bug to ever actually pay for your software, instead opting for free alternatives. In short, fix your software adobe. We pay you enough to expect a product that doesn't have a bug for 2+ years.

Report · Aug 01, 2024

I am having the same problem with it and it's really annoying.

Report · Aug 07, 2024

Can confirm latest beta FINALLY solves this. Now just gotta push it out to the actual build so I'm not on a beta version.

Report · Oct 05, 2024

I have ver 24.6.1 and still not fixed. Anyway to know when this will get fixed on the production side?

Report · Oct 05, 2024

Anyway to know when this will get fixed on the production side?

By @Soujirou7

My guess would be that a new version will be released at Adobe Max.

Report · Oct 23, 2024

MX Master users yall bout to LOVE me....

so none of the stuff in the replies here worked, like changing the MX Master 3 scroll wheel speed to 50% in logi options+, etc, timeline still was zooming in erratically while trying to zoom out (so fed up with this dogwater-a$$ app i was about to go down the rabbithole of connecting my Mackie MCU Pro into this dumpster fire just to have glitch free zoom & jog).

while finishing this edit i held down option and right before was about to roll the main wheel to zoom, a sneeze came outta nowhere & my thumb roll the thumb wheel accidentally instead, AND THAT BISH ZOOOMED THE TIMELINE OUT FLAWLESSLY! Option(or alt on win i guess)+thumbwheel = working TL zoom.

why TF adobe has it working correctly for a second wheel most mice don't have but somehow the feature all mice have, a main wheel, hasn't worked properly in literally years is beyond me. TF they spending the $ we pay each month on, gas station b0ner pills & esc0rts? cause they sure aint spending it on fixing this buggy crashing mess.

anyway that's my rant, hope this workaround helps till they fix this. if they dont im goin to FC Pro or back to Davinci.