Scrolling the timeline

Greetings. First time poster, long time FCE 3.5 user.
I have been at this FCE game now for about a year and a half and have a love/hate relationship with it. My background was with the DPS product Perception RT which was an absolutely amazing editing package. Unfortunately DPS is gone and that simple pro system Perception has been left well behind in the ever changing world of digital video.
Onto the modern I guess.
What I want to know is whether or not FCE can scoll the timeline during playback. I like to see the position of the scrubber on the timeline as the video plays back and I constantly have to hit stop, advance the timeline and resume playing again. This is tedious. If it cannot than this little update from the folks at apple would be a welcome addition.

Thanks for the feedback. I have a list of suggestions for apple. At its base FCE is great but I'm afraid someday I may punch out my computer in a fit of frustration.

Similar Messages

Crash when scrolling the timeline

this happens every single time:
if I zoom on the timeline, then I scroll to the right (to reveal next edits), Premiere crashes. if I zoom to the left it doesn't crash.
sometimes it says "sorry Premiere has to shut down we'll try to save the project", while other times it simply crashes and the default Apple crash report appears.
this happens on CC 2014.1 and latest 2014.2 and it's very frustrating because I have to use workarounds in order to move through the timeline.
I'm on OS X 10.9.5, on a new Mac Pro with 2x D700 GPUs, 3.5GHz 6 core CPU and 32GB ram.
any idea on what's causing this problem and how to solve it?
thanks!

Here's another thread on a similar if not identical issue: Premiere Pro CC Crashing when Scrolling Through Sequence in Timeline - Audio Waveform Goes Blank First.
In order to keep the discussion centralized, please post the following there:
information about your system
a crash log
If the Renderer is set to use GPU acceleration, please switch to Software-Only [File>Project Settings>General]. Also, if the pulldown menu for the Renderer shows both CUDA and OpenCL, try both of those options.

Is there a keyboard shortcut to move the handle of the timeline window to scroll it forward and backward......?

I want to use keys to control the part of the timeline that I want to see by scrolling the timeline ahead and backwards.....exactly what we do with that handle at the bottom of the timeline......

I don't know a keyboard combination to scroll the timelime left or right, but you can easily do it, either
using the trackpad (two finger drag), the magic mouse (1 finger drag), orthe "Hand" tool. Press H to select it. Click and hold, and drag.

Auto scrolling the page in playback/record

During record/playback the page does not auto scroll. I cannot find an option for this.
Please help

Auto-scrolling (Lock Playhead): If the Timeline Area shows only a portion of your songs length, then the Playhead will "disappear" when it reaches the right edge of the Project. You then have to manually scroll the Timeline Area to view that section. To avoid this constant interaction, GarageBand provides a feature called "Auto-scrolling. Now when you play your song, the Playhead stays fixed at the center of the Timeline Area and the Time Ruler with all the Track Lanes itself scrolls underneath the fixed Playhead. The little double-arrow icon in the lower right corner of the Arrange window lets you toggle between Auto-scrolling on and off.
This beavior affects the Timeline area in the the Arrange window and the Timeline area of the Track Editor
Hope that helps
Edgar Rothermich
<Edited by Host>

Why won't the timeline window scroll?

In every version of Flash I have used (always on a Mac),
including Flash 8, I can't use the scroll wheel or track pad to
scroll up and down (or side to side, now that I have a MacBook pro
;-) in the time line window. Instead I have to stop what I'm doing
and drag the scroll bar with the mouse, or use the scroll arrows.
Over time when I am working on a complex project with lots of
layers this becomes a real hassle. I need to be able to just get
the cursor anywhere over the timeline and scroll...is that too much
to ask?? :mad;

D'oh!
If that is truly the only solution I will have to
live with it for now. It seems like a pretty basic bug to have
gotten this far through so many versions, though...anybody else out
there have the same problem?

Vertical scroll bar disappears on the timeline?

After I use the vertical scroll bar once it disappears and I am unable to scroll. If I click the film strip on and off, it comes back. Is there a way to always keep the scroll bar visable on the timeline?

That has got to be a bug. Go to the Motion menu and Provide Motion Feedback... !
Otherwise, you can scroll with your mouse. I use a mouse with a scroll wheel, but I think I remember the magic mouse has a scroll gesture(?).
You can make the layers smaller by mousing over one of the lines in the layers list to the left of the timeline. The cursor should change to a double-pointed arrow. Click and drag the layers smaller.
You can open the timeline window wider by mousing over the Timeline top border, and click drag to make it larger.
I use this feature so rarely that I had never noticed before. When the scroll bar does appear, it's not "fully formed" either -- just a grey bar -- no resize controls on the ends at all.

Scroll buttons in the TimeLine's ScrollBar in AdobePremiere CS6

I see a lot of questions about scroll speed in TimeLine, but I used very intense the scroll buttons, when i had long TimeLines (more than 4 hours) and I was with ZoomIn near 90%.
Does anyone know, is it possible to enable scroll buttons in the TimeLine's ScrollBar in AdobePremiere CS6, as it was in CS5/CS4 ?
CS5 image: http://www.maclife.com/files/u129772/2010/06/premiere_full.jpg
CS6 image: http://www.100acrefilms.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Premiere-Pro-CS6.png
On demo CS5 image, On the bottom margin, the horizontal scrollbar from TimeLine has Left and Right scroll Buttons.
On demo CS6 image, on the bottom margin the horizontal scrollbar from TimeLine doesn't contain any scroll buttons.
Actually there are no scroll buttons available in Premiere CS6, as in a classic scrollbar.
I'd like to have back the scroll buttons in the horizontal scrollbar from the TimeLine, which were available in version CS5, CS4, CS3, Pro2.
In TimeLines with 3 more hours it was very handy to go to right or to left even I had zoomed In.
I pressed on left/right scroll button in TimeLine and I was able to deplace with some (or more) frames in desired side.
Thank you for answers / suggestions.

There are no user settings for this. The scroll bar is now a combo scroll/zoom bar and we're pretty much stuck with it. You can grab the bar and move it around if you like, and I'm happy to report that Premiere Pro CC does now scroll as a usable speed with the mouse wheel. (On my personal Windows 8 system, at least. We'll see if that holds true for my Windows 7 edit rig as well.)

When I put in a scroll in fcx, I get a single frame of the scroll flashing on the screen about a second or two before the scroll appears. There is nothing on the timeline and this only appears after I have made the quicktime or dvd. Any thoughts?

When I put in a scroll in fcx, I get a single frame of the scroll flashing on the screen about a second or two before the scroll appears. There is nothing on the timeline and this only appears on the quicktime or dvd. Any thoughts?

'''I fixed mine by removing the Ask.com extension.'''
Tools
Add-ons
Settings icon
View Recent Updates
Ask.com '''DISABLE'''
Running FF 8.0 on Windows 7 (64-bit)

My after effects keep crashing whenever i scroll through the timeline!

My AE pops up saying "copy save" whenever i try to scroll through the timeline, then when i click save it doesnt work, so i click cancel, and AE crashes, ive tried for HOURS AND HOURS AND IM SO STRESSED! I HAVE THINGS TO DO AND I NEED HELP!

AE CRASH AFTER SCROLLING wrote:
i dont know any other settings other than that.
Then find out.
What exact version number of AE CS5.5 do you have? Help>About will tell you.
Your composition settings will tell you your composition settings. And surely you must know what sort of footage you have in your scene and what effects you've applied.
Also, the exact wording of any and all error messages would help.

Can I use the mouse scroll wheel for zooming the timeline?

Howdy...
As a recent convert from Vegas, one of the best features that I miss is using the mouse scroll wheel to zoom into and out of the timeline..
Anyone know a way I can set this up in FCP6?
Thanks...
-Ben

Yes.
(I know I'm gonna get flamed by the pros here who will advise NEVER to use third party plug-ins, but... I've been a heavy user of FCP for years and NEVER had any problem with this, so here goes:)
Install USB Overdrive, and program your mouse with:
- wheel_up to cmd+plus (=zoom in) and
- wheel_down to cmd+minus (=zoom out).
I actually use clickedwheelup and clickedwheeldown for this zooming in and out, keeping the plain vanilla wheel_up and wheel_down for, well, up and down (or clip_left and clip_right on the timeline).
Nice thing is, it then works in the Viewer and Canvas to zoom in and out, too.
HTH.

Why does imovie not show the video when you are scrolling through the timeline

why is it when using imovie when you scroll through the timeline it doesn't show in the movie window this is for imovie 11 when editing a large video composedof many small clips

Do you have AuthenTec TrueSuite ?
See:
*[[/questions/937571]] Firefox address field hide the last part of the address when loaded

Is there anyway to capture the scrolling through of the timeline?

When you scroll throw the timeline back and forth really fast you sort of get this really smooth fast motion motage effect that can't be achieved with other iMovie effects. Is there a program or something that can be used to capture this?

SnapzPro X.
About $70.
It can record nearly anything (DVD's are an exception) that plays on your computer display.

Controlling the timeline with mouse scrolling

Hello all,
i need to control the timeline animation with the mouse wheel.
how is it possible
i've tried this code but I've could only make it work with mouse move, unfortunatly the scroll does not work -
composition ready:
this.onMove=function(posX, posY){
timelinecontrol = Number(posX)*30;
console.log(timelinecontrol);
sym.stop(timelinecontrol);
mousemove:
this.onMove(e.pageX, e.pageY);
I've also tried this one - http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1149792
but didnt worked either
many tnx!!!!

found the answer at this thread -
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5628190#5628190
this is the exampel posted by Vinay -----
Here is an example - http://www.dealsdrizzle.com/research/scroll/scroll2.html
Source - http://www.dealsdrizzle.com/research/scroll/scroll2.zip

Smoother Scrolling in the Timeline?

Is there a setting that would allow me to scroll smoothly through the timeline when I drag the timeline indicator? As it is, when I drag it through the timeline it's very jumpy and lags behind the selection tool.

If you're playing the timeline, the timeline scroll bar at the bottom of the timeline window will lag. If you use the hand tool, it's much less choppy. If you have a mouse with a track ball instead of a scroll wheel, you can use that and it's much better than the scroll bar. If you have a tablet, you can set up the stylus to scroll sideways while holding one of the stylus buttons. That's what I use, and it's very smooth.

Can i make the timeline scroll along in real time?

as in the playhead remains in the middle and the tracks move past...
i thought you could but i can't find the option..
cheers
hugh

There is a simple (though not automatic) way to have the timeline scroll.
Put the cursor at the bottom of the timeline, in the bar area where you set the area to be viewed and use the scroll wheel of the mouse.
Also, some mice have the ability to control left/right window movement by pushing on the sides of the scroll wheel (e.g. the logitech mx series).
If Apple ever institutes this 'feature' I'd hope they set it as a toggle. There are many times when I do not want the timeline to move.
Cheers,
x

Scrolling the timeline

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for