Using scroll wheel to zoom timeline

I would like to do zooming with the scroll wheel, rather than taking my hand off the mouse to do CMD+/- or having to move my pointer away from the timeline and use the scroll widget at the bottom of the screen. Can someone tell me if there's any way to assign zooming to the scroll wheel?

I don't know about a scroll wheel, and maybe this is not what you expected to hear, but you should try a trackpad. Zooming in and out, moving the timeline left or right, and more, are so easily done with gestures that are common to most mac applications. The trackpad in mac laptops, and the Magic Trackpad, are to me far more effective and ergonomic than any mouse.
Edit: Oh - and you already have it! (your profile says Macbook Air...)

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Use scroll wheel to zoom on Mac OSX?

Hi,
I have recently switched to a Macbook from Windows. On Windows (if I remember correctly) you could zoom in and out by pressing "Control" and the using the scroll wheel on the mouse. It seems this is not working on the Macbook. Is there a way to enable this? I know you can use the pinch gestures on the track pad but I much prefer the scroll wheel.

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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..
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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).
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HTH.

"Zoom using scroll wheel while holding" is broken

Hello,
Since updating to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion this morning, the "Zoom using scroll wheel while holding" feature is broken.
In the mouse control panel the checkbox for "Zoom using scroll wheel while holding" is definitely checked. The default Control ^ key is selected. I verified I'm hitting the correct key on the keyboard using the keyboard viewer.
I've tried using this with 2 finger scrolling on my trackpack as well. I've also tried turning off most of the trackpack geustures.
I tried searching these forums prior to posting and found replies telling people with various different situations to turn this feature off. I want it on. I use it constantly.
I have a MacBook Pro Aluminum 13-Inch Mid 2010
Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (11A511)
Any advise would be appreciated!
Thanks.

Hello. Original poster here. I can confirm a few things after observing for a few days and trying stuff.
1) The Universal access fixes did nothing. I set & reset those settings til I was blue in the face.
2) I tried a "Repair Permissions" with the Disk Utility. No luck.
3) It works intermitently. After sleeping sometimes it works. After plugging into my external monitor sometimes it works on the external monitor but then if I unplug it won't work again. After a reboot somtimes it works, then after sleeping stops working. Kinda strange. When it works it works from both my external USB mouse and the trackpad, so I don't think it's the hardware.
I don't have Time Machine configured - been using Carbonite, but they're not compatible with Lion so might have to get Time Machine running anyway - but it's not a fix per se, since this oughta work all the time.

Why does Adobe Reader use the scroll wheel to zoom in/out now, rather than actually scroll?

Why does Adobe Reader use the scroll wheel to zoom in/out rather than actually, um, scroll? I can't find anywhere to change this function in Preferences, either.

I had the same problem on my Windows 8 touch screen laptop. It was driving me crazy! Every time I tried to scroll a page down, the program would zoom the page! Made reading an ebook difficult.
I finally found the solution:
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Using mouse wheel to zoom? (Macs)

Hi guys,
I recently made the jump to Mac from PC (had been designing almost completely on PC for 12 years). I've discovered a wealth of shortcuts for Flash CS5 on Mac, but it's missing a significant one for me:
On Flash for PC, the user can press CTRL + SHIFT + Wheel Scroll to zoom in and out.
On Mac, although users can wheel-zoom (+ ALT) in Photoshop, Illustrator, and even InDesign -- Flash doesn't have this capability.
Call me nitpicky, but this was the most significant shortcut for me on PC.
I notice this same topic has been posted sparsely over the years, with very few repliesand no remedy.
I'm hoping someone's figured out a way or knows of a solution?
Would really appreciate any help. Thank you!
-T

Not sure if I am misreading your post, but there is an option in the preferences that allows you to choose Zoom With Scroll Wheel. With this option active you hold the ALT key to scroll.
My Logitech mouse has a tilt wheel on it and this works fine in Photoshop. It doesn't loop through the screen but it does pan left and right with no problem. On this mouse the scroll wheel can also be pressed, and can be programmed to almost any key, I use for double click.
Forgive me if I've misunderstood your question.

Using mouse wheel to zoom and pan

I was wondering if there would be a way to make a javascript that would load at Photoshop's startup that would allow the user to zoom in and out using the mouse wheel (instead of using it for scrolling), and to use that same mouse wheel as a third button (when you push on the mouse wheel) or any third button on a three button mouse to pan in your image. I'm a 3ds max user and I love the way the navigation work in that software so it'd be great to be able to do that for Photoshop and Illustrator and get rid of those useless key shortcuts that we need to use to zoom and pan.
For the pan fonction, I guess if there was a way to simply say "when the third mouse button is pressed, press the space button, until the mouse button is released" it could work. But then it would force the panning to stop when the mouse goes offscreen, unlike in 3ds max where you can pan for whatever distance you want, even if you have the loop throught the screen ten times.
For the zoom function, if scolling up could simply "push" the keyboard shortcuts to zoom in/ zoom out it could work, but I don't know if that's possible. And then we'd have to disable the scrolling up and down in the document.
Anyways, if anyone has any ideas about that let me know! I've been looking for that for such a long time!

Not sure if I am misreading your post, but there is an option in the preferences that allows you to choose Zoom With Scroll Wheel. With this option active you hold the ALT key to scroll.
My Logitech mouse has a tilt wheel on it and this works fine in Photoshop. It doesn't loop through the screen but it does pan left and right with no problem. On this mouse the scroll wheel can also be pressed, and can be programmed to almost any key, I use for double click.
Forgive me if I've misunderstood your question.

Increments Of 100 With Grad Filter and Adj Brush Using Scroll Wheel and Arrows

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Seen that as well. Keyboard focus has been an issue for me on Vista x64 OS for quite sometime.Sometimes the arrows don't move in even increments on all the sliders for various adjustments.
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XFCE's mixer plugin stops at 90% when using scroll wheel over icon

Yeah, title says it. By putting the cursor over the icon and using the scroll wheel, the volume goes up to 90%. But when I open the mixer and drag the master slider, it goes to 100%. How do I fix this?

Had the same Problem, was really annoying me. Probably a baaad baad bad workaround:
in src/xfce4-mixer-4.6.0/panel-plugin (ABS / xfce4-mixer)
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to
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rebuild, done.
I've been searching for a while for the real problem, but I'm no programmer. Looks as if somewhere someone perhaps startet counting at 1% instead of 0% or something, but I've got no idea where.
(useless EDIT: Seems as if someone already fixed it in the newest version available in ABS since I changed it on my machine. Wait, trying...
EDIT: Nope, still only works up to 90% in current ABS version I think - might have just forgotten to re-extract the source of the panel after update. Redoing the "bad fix" got it to 100% again though.)
Last edited by whoops (2009-04-08 11:17:41)

Can't Use Scroll Wheel to Turn Pages

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So, after 24 hours there are still no responses so I'm going to say that the answer to my question is: "No, you cannot use the scroll wheel on your mouse to navigate in iBooks for the Mac." I'm picking this as the best answer and will be sending feedback to Apple about this issue. At least now when someone does a web search on this, they'll have an answer.
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I wonder whether somebody can tell me how I can reinstate my OS10.5.8's ability to scroll horizontally using my mouse's scroll wheel and the shift key.

Dear Japamac,
Thanks for this:
> Repair the hard drive using Disk Utility?
My Disk Utility says there are no errors.
> Reset the PRAM?
In a few days' time I'm due to get help at the Genius Bar of an Apple shop. I'll ask the technician about PRAM.
> The function wasn't removed in 10.5.8.......
I gather that your OS10.5.8 with PowerPC allows you to scroll horizontally with your mouse's scroll wheel and the shift key.
As I implied in my words "reinstate my OS10.5.8's ability", I was able to use the horizontal-scroll-with-wheel-and-shift trick for a long time after I installed OS10.5.8 (that was in the middle of 2009).
I'll see whether the Genius Bar can reinstate the trick for me.
Thanks for your ideas, Japamac.

Safari crash in Acrord32 when use scroll wheel while PDF loading

Whenever I download a PDF (in browser), Safari 4 crashes in Acrord32 if I use the scroll wheel on my mouse while the PDF is still loading.
This seems to often happen to me as I impatiently want to start browsing the PDF without waiting for it to finish loading completely.
This happens for me on two completely different systems - one XP, one Vista.
Using latest version of Acrobat Reader (9), and in both 4 and 4.02 of Safari for Windows.
Mostly I get a "this program needs to close" type message from Windows, and clicking on details show Acrord32 as the problem. However sometimes Safari just freezes using 95% CPU, or occasionally the program just disappears.
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Yes, I see it too with the same exact combination of Safari and Adobe Reader.

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I can scroll horizontally through my timeline, but that is not what I need.
I want to move the playhead every scroll-'click' by 15 frames for example.
Pinnacle Studio had that feature, worked really fast.

Given the scrolling function of the sequence, I'm not sure how it could.
A modifier key, maybe. You can always ask.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
(Be sure to also ask them to reverse the Program Monitor scroll so down goes forward, like it should.)

Use scroll wheel to adjust sliders

Would like to adjust sliders via mouse scroll wheel. I've tried on a variety of sliders and none seem to work
Yes I've found keys to adjust, but would prefer not to remove hand from mouse so often.
Win 7
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Logitech mouse

If you mean by clicking on the arrow, bringing up the actual slider. No, that doesn't work. I've tried clicking various parts of the slider itself to no avail.
Have tried on numerous different adjustments, labels, filters in case that it only works on some.

Scrolling using Scroll Wheel in Adobe Illustrator

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJlFL8u3_t4
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Er, your point being?
Seems you have a lot to learn.
Perspective, aerial perspective, reflections and so on.

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