Ability for Disable Program Monitor Zoom Settings

[jessenicoli]

Please add the following settings
1. Ability to disable zoom on the program window or change mouse scroll wheel behavior. While scrubbing on the timeline with the mouse wheel it's prone to accidentally moving the cursor over the video and unintentionally zooming causing a frustrating experience.

2. Setting to disable the nodes on audio transitions in the sequence timeline. They make it more difficult to make edits in the timeline.

Mod note: The title was changed slightly

[Michal233305510g46]

+1 for disable zoom option. 😞

[Ann Bens]

I love this feature very much.

Was a bit of getting used to the frame scrolling over the lower part of the PM.

[Raymond Chambers]

OH MY GOODNESS I FOUND THE SOLUTION WITH THE HELP OF CHATGPT! Finally! Good lord it was frustrating.

Enable High-Quality Playback:

Right-click within the Program Monitor.
Select 'High Quality Playback' from the context menu.
This setting has resolved similar issues for other users.

[Editor Jim]

Unfortunately, that option doesn't work for me. I'm wondering if you have other settings enabled or disabled somewhere that allow this to work for you. 

I'm on Premiere 25.1.0 and using a Mac MagicMouse, which is incredibly sensitive.

[CoachNick]

The issue for me is that I'll be hovering over either the program monitor or Projects window and accidentally move my finger up or down on my Magic Mouse - and it zooms in. Before I realized this was a new feature, you can imagine the confusion when I thought it was cropping the frame on its own. So this feature isn't the time saver you might think it is as I'm constantly zooming in when I'm just trying to move the cursor somewhere and my finger happens to move half a centimeter down at the same time. The ability to turn this function off is an imperative. Thanks.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hey @CoachNick,

That is my issue too. I will advocate for a change as this affects me several times per session. It knocks me out of my workflow. I already let the team know that I'm passionate about this one.

Cheers,
Kevin

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @jessenicoli Updating the status of this Idea. The first issue is affecting my workflow, as well. The second issue needs to be filed separately, if you don't mind. @jessenicoli. I'd be happy to advocate for that.

Thanks,
Kevin

Thanks,
Kevin

[Ryan Fritzsche]

Thanks @Kevin-Monahan !

[Kevin-Monahan]

Sure thing, @Ryan Fritzsche. I tracked those that are responsible for the function and reached out interally.

Cheers,
Kevin

[S. Lloyd]

Yes, huge thank you! This affects me every day! 

[default71zokee5l7sa]

Has this problem been addressed? We have been suffering this "feature upgrade" for a while now with no relief in sight. Every time that we accidentally scroll one millimeter ourside the scroll area the zoom is unrecoverable with no way to undo the zoom and we must restart the whole program. It's a huge time drain. Please help. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Wow ... you have to restart?

I've not seen anyone else with that ... you simply scroll or click "Fit" ... and get back to work. But Fit doesn't work once you scroll?

[johnm22482568]

Why would you have to restart the whole program? You just chose "fit" in the resize options and then it snaps back to original aspect. It's still annoying as heck and UNBELIEVABLE Adobe hasn't introduced the ability to disable this auto zoom feature after all time. But if you have to restart the whole programs something else is going on with your system.

[Alan 5555]

This is NUTS that it hasn't been resolved.  @ADOBE PLEASE introduce ability to lock this feaure off. it is reall ANNOYING and interrupts workflow !!!!

[albiong22718917]

tihis has been driving me nuts for months! such a bad feature. it's should be such a simple fix, how as it not been done yet? I'm guessing noone from Adobe checks this forum?

[peterh25291972]

Maybe they don't care? @Kevin-Monahan is there any update on getting this issue fixed?

[gregorym17920819]

Every so often I get an email notification about this thread and it gives me a chuckle. I've since moved on to Resolve. Free yourselves, my friends! 😂

[PaulMurphy]

In the current Beta version, you need to press the Cmd/Ctrl key to enable Zoom with the scroll wheel.

[Una34825317z7wh]

Only quick workaround for disable zoom option is "Shift+/" every time it zooms.

[Editor Jim]

I just downloaded 25.2 and the first thing I did was to see if this was fixed. It doesn't look like it.

[s_5527]

Hi everyone,

I'm using Premiere Pro on a MacBook Pro 16" (2019), currently running macOS Sequoia 15.4. My current Premiere Pro version is 24.6.5, and everything works as expected.

Here's the issue:
In this version, when I add a clip to the project and open it in the Source Monitor, I can hover over the video and use a two-finger swipe on the trackpad to scrub through the clip (move forward/backward quickly through the timeline). This is a super useful feature for me.

However, in any newer version of Premiere Pro, this behavior breaks. When I try the same gesture — two-finger swipe on the trackpad while hovering over the Source Monitor — it triggers a zoom in/out of the image instead of scrubbing through the clip.

This makes navigation really frustrating.
Is there a way to bring back the original scrub behavior with the trackpad in the newer versions?

Thanks in advance!

[Kevin-Monahan]

HI there,

Thanks for the message and welcome to the forum. This sounds like it could be a bug. I will move your post to the bugs forum then. Thanks again and sorry for the problem.

Take Care,

Kevin

[Dani_V.]

Hi @s_5527,

Welcome to the Premiere Pro forums and sorry you're experiencing issues.

Have you tried hovering over the time ruler itself and swiping? This should allow you to scrub through your video as before. If you hover above the time ruler area, it will zoom in and out instead.

Sorry for the frustration,
Dani

[s_5527]

Hey, thanks for the reply! Just wanted to point out a couple things:

• So yeah, if I hover over the time ruler and swipe, I can scrub through the video. But it’s definitely not how it used to work. Before, I could just hover over the image area, do a quick swipe, and no matter how long the video was, it would instantly scrub to the end. If I swiped slower, it’d go slower — super intuitive. Now, with the time ruler, each swipe skips a fixed chunk of time — like about a minute — no matter how fast or slow the gesture is. So if I’ve got a 20-minute video, that’s 20 swipes just to get to the end. Not great, and kind of misses the point of that feature.

• Also, when you're editing, speed really matters. Having to precisely aim for the time ruler every time just slows things down — it's a small thing, but it adds up.

Is there any way to bring the old behavior back in the latest Premiere versions? Any settings or workaround for that? Right now I’m stuck using an older version, even though I’m still paying for the subscription.

Would appreciate any tips — thanks!

[s_5527]

@Dani_V.