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Here’s an oldie, but a goodie. I was reminded of this recently when asked about default timeline scrolling behavior in Final Cut Pro. Larry Jordan has the scoop and outlines the available options.
Also, a longtime Vegas user was lamenting to me that in Vegas he could roll his mouse wheel to zoom in/out of the timeline quickly, and he couldn’t figure out how to make Final Cut Pro behave that way as well. I wasn’t able to find a way to do this within FCP, but it’s possible with USB Overdrive ($20 shareware, and well worth the dough).
*Load up USB Overdrive and create a custom profile for FCP (hint:”New”)
*Select “Wheel Up” in the middle pane, in the right-most pane select “Keystroke” from the dropdown, tick the “Option” box, and type “=” in the “Keystroke” input box at the bottom.
*Repeat for the “Wheel Down” setting, but substitute “-” in the Keystroke input box at the bottom.
This will allow you to roll the mouse wheel to zoom in/out of your FCP timeline. What’s really cool is that when you create a new profile for Final Cut, this behavior only applies when FCP is the active application. Your mouse Global Settings remain untouched.
If you want to scroll your timeline sideways with the mouse, you can do that as well with USB Overdrive. I set my “Clicked Wheel Up/Down” behavior to “Scroll Left/Right” (choose that option from the dropdown in the right-most pane). Number of lines to scroll is configurable, the default of “1″ isn’t enough. I’m liking “8″ at this point…
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You can already use Shift Scroll to go side to side, and regular scroll to scroll up and down if you have a lot of tracks. If looking to zoom or other stuff, I’d use it in conjunction with another button - shift/command/control/something. Maybe use another simultaneous mouse button? Don’t know if that works, but try it…
You can already use Shift Scroll to go side to side, and regular scroll to scroll up and down if you have a lot of tracks.
Yup, those are already built in, thx for the reminder, Mike. I guess I delved into this specifically because of the Vegas user’s questions. Just a way to get things working kinda like Vegas for editors that may be switching from the brain-rotting-NLE. ;-)
If looking to zoom or other stuff, I’d use it in conjunction with another button - shift/command/control/something.
As far as I can tell, USB Overdrive won’t let you use a keyboard (or additional mousebutton) modifier with a command…but along those same lines, it would be just as easy to assign Click-Wheel-Up and Click-Wheel-Down to zoom. That would give you a quick zoom on the mousewheel, while still preserving the default FCP scrollwheel behavior. Hmm, I may go that route myself…