Best ways to zoom and scroll the timeline – Quickest way to zoom out??

[Dave Raftery]

[Frank Manno] “Should I go buy a scroll wheel mouse and if I did, how do you scroll left and right with those?”

You can get scroll wheel mice where the wheel tilts left and right, though I’ve never liked those. The Mighty Mouse is delightful for the five seconds before the wheel gunks up. I’ve stuck with and been happy with a Logitech MX518 (not looking forward to trying to replace it).

As far as left-right scrolling goes, hold down shift and scrolling up/down becomes left/right.

I’m not sure if the direction is altered by the natural scrolling option in 10.7 and later.

[Zachary Stowasser]

Re: Pinch Gesture for Zoom: I also would like to see the Pinch Gesture enabled for zooming!

Thanks everyone for sharing your tips! I will be adding the Z+Drag to my work flow! Thanks!

[Shay Carriere]

On 7 my preferred zoom method was to hit the zoom tool and then click rapidly a few times to zoom in and then hold option and same thing to zoom out, but for some reason in X it refuses to let me click quickly (zooms once then stops no matter how many clicks).
Anyone else have this problem?

One other PITA for me is my logitech wheel tilt to scroll the timeline horizontally, it does this thing where it moves a bit, stops, and then accelerates into the scroll. Can’t figure that one out either.