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Timeline Scanning Feature?
I am asking if there is any way to “grab and scan” the timeline, for instance, like you can grab in the canvas in Photoshop with the mouse and spacebar to move around the canvas? I keep finding myself pining for a feature that would allow me to grab the timeline with the mouse and a modifier key and be able to “pan” or “scan” through the timeline when I am zoomed in too much to see the whole project. I am tired if zooming in and out to see it. Yes, I can grab the playhead and do that to some degree, but this would be for those times when I do not want to move the playhead, The biggest reason I want this is because I have a dual monitor set-up and zooming keeps putting the playhead right in the bezel. Please, HELP ME FIND THE WAY. ‘Preciate it.
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Option-equal sign or option-minus sign.
You can also hit ‘h’ for the hand tool.
Jeremy
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If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse (or a nifty trackball with a scroll ring) then you can hold the shift key and move the wheel to scroll your timeline horizontally. Works a treat.
Also, just to echo, hit “h” on the keyboard to activate the hand tool, which will let you drag the timeline around as you please. Hit “a” after you’re done to get the arrow tool back. Pretty quick.
A nice feature would be to have the h key work only when holding it down so that releasing it would return to the previous tool. My other edit suite is an Avid DS and its timeline pan feature works exactly like this (except with the x key). It’s just a little nicer than having to hit a key to turn it on, then another to turn it off. Plus, I’m lazy. But then again, most of us editors are. 😉
-Matt
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