‘Hand Tool’ temporary toggle

[Tl Westgate]

There are scroll bars at the top and bottom of the timeline for that.

— TL

[Troy Murison]

I want that too (AE/PS hand behavior) maybe as a ‘mappable’ shortcut, if that makes sense. I remap my keyboard so the hand tool is the spacebar (I don’t ever use it to toggle playback) but still have to remember to switch back to other tools.

I really wish Adobe would bring back the ‘mini timeline’ navigation window that Premiere 6.x had and the Avid D|S has. Very handy for longer form editing for sure. Of course it should be it’s own window just like in 6.x, so if you don’t need it or use it, close it/undock it bla, bla.

On the ‘toggle’ subject, I also wish some tools in PPro could share a shortcut key as you can in PS/AE with the pen tool for instance (like slip/slide, ripple/roll, etc. sharing a keyboard shortcut) and also be mappable or assignable that way.

BTW, you can submit feature requests to Adobe for all it’s products!

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA.

[Alan Shisko]

Yes, I know. Those are what I’m trying to avoid 🙂

So I’m to gather that there is no way to pan/ slide on the timeline with a toggled KB shortcut?? I find that amazing…

alan

[Jon Barrie]

Since version PPro1 AKA Prem7, the ability to pan left and right view width by view width using the up and down arrows has and still is there. I’ve been requesting the ability to use the mouse to go up/down the layers with mouse wheel and left/right with shift key down and mouse wheeel in action. It might happen in an update 4.1

Btw, there is a new feature with the zoom to fit key “\”. If you are zoomed in, hit \ then jump all the way out, move CTI to new point in time, hit \ again and you are zoomed in at same amount in new position in timeline. How’s that grab ya?
– Jon Barrie 😉

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[Tim Kolb]

If he’s interested to the same degree that I am in having a toggle for this, I’d guess it’s not what he wants.

There are several tools that would be handy to have work this way (a toggle) at least as an option…hand tool…and when is the last time you selected the razor and did more than one or two cuts?…the track select tool would be good for me in that mode personally…

This is a feature request that I’ve made rather repeatedly…since PPro 1.5 I believe…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

CPO, Digieffects

[Jon Barrie]

Is there a KB shortcut to temporarily toggle to the hand tool (other than hitting “H”)? When I’m zoomed in on the timeline and want to slide the view back or forth, right now I have to hit “H”, drag, then hit “V” or whatever to get back to what I was doing.

Hi Tim,

If this is all that is needed other than to move up and down layers the scroll wheel on the mouse allows you to move along the timeline without moving the CTI so you can see a little earlier or later than the space you are looking at.

– Jon Barrie 😉

How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
http://www.jonbarrie.net

[Alan Shisko]

Yes! That’s exactly what I was looking for. My preference would be for the ‘hold down space bar to temporarily activate the hand tool’ (like in AE/PS) but the scroll wheel will do the trick in a pinch.

FYI, I thought that the actual scroll speed was a little too slow for my liking, then accidentally discovered that if you move your cursor over the bottom scroll bar, it triples the ‘scrolling’ speed. By design, I guess, and it works well.

Thanks all,

alan

[Troy Murison]

Wow, I guess maybe I should consider switching to a mouse! I use a tablet so was unaware of the scrolling timeline with the wheel thing. Very cool and it works really well! I know I miss some functionality in AE and PS by not using a wheel mouse too…

I still want the shortcut and ‘toggle-able’ shortcuts though! 🙂

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Alan Shisko]

Troy,

I use a tablet as well, but have a Logitech keyboard with a scroll wheel on the left hand side. I use that to replicate mouse scroll wheels when using the tablet (which is always). It works well, not just with AE/PS/PPro etc., but also just for moving web pages up and down.

alan

[Troy Murison]

Alan,

That makes sense, and I’ve considered that for web surfing, AE, PS, etc. but I usually don’t surf on my editing system and I’ve learned to live without wheel functionality in other programs. But now that I know this ‘shortcut’ for PPro I’m reconsidering.

Thanks!

-t.