I would like to have the playhead stay where I put it when performing edits in Premiere Pro, especially when zooming in/out.
When zooming in/out the playhead always moves back to the center of the timeline regardless of where I position it, and regardless of the timeline scroll setting. (My scroll setting is set to page scroll.) For me, the expected behavior is that the playhead stays positioned and the timeline moves around it, since I manually positioned it.
Ideally, the playhead position would not change with most edits or changes in view, because I want to edit where the playhead is positioned, and keep it positioned in the same place on the timeline. I can't edit as fast as I would like because I move the timeline/playhead to the left side of the timeline and when I zoom in to get a better view it scrolls the timeline so the playhead is centered, and I then have to scroll the timeline back to where I had it positioned. (Zooming out also does this, but it usually takes a few zoom out steps to become completely centered.)
I edit on two 27" 4K monitors at 100% display scaling on Windows, and use both monitors to display PP panels, with the timeline on the right monitor. Because it defaults to moving the playhead to the center of the panel, I am constantly having to scroll the timeline horizontally to get the playhead back to where it's usable for me.
This is probably not an issue for those with a monitor centered in front of them, but those who don't could benefit from this small change.
That, or the ability to change how fast the mouse wheel scrolls the timeline without changing a system setting would be the next best thing (it's painfully slow to scroll horizontally with the mouse wheel).
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