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Despite the odd mouse wheel behavior, the problem which lowers the operating efficiency is that I often need to drag the slim scroll bar in the bottom to move left the current scope of timeline.
Must I frequently switch between Ctrl + Mouse Wheel and Alt + Mouse Wheel to zoom and move respectively, instead of placing the cursor and mouse pointer in right positions and scrolling the mouse wheel only once?
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In Power Director, the behavior of mouse wheel in the timeline is unusual. It seems to cannot deal with the current position cursor correctly.
This behavior is different from every software I used which support zooming or panning the view through mouse wheel.
Is this a bug?
Yes, the mouse wheel control in the timeline is a little odd. It zooms the whoie timeline without regard to current scrubber position. I'm not aware of a means to zoom around scrubber easily without this timeline movement. You can do it somewhat with a left mouse click in the timeline numbers and move mouse left and right but its got some issues too.
There was several anomalies with the thumbwheel behavior in PD15, these were corrected in beta patch 2421 http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/50731.page and then fully released patch 2509 https://www.cyberlink.com/support/powerdirector-ultra/patches_en_US.html so make sure you are current in releases.
Jeff
Thank you, Jeff.
I saw these two patches. Because in the v2421 beta patch, it claims that "Fixes the issue that the mouse wheel scrolling behavior is changed when clicking on the timeline."
And I have installed the update to build 2509. So when recording the demo videos, my PD version was already 15.0.2509.0.
I did not found any difference on the mouse wheel behavior on timeline after applying this update.
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In Power Director, the behavior of mouse wheel in the timeline is unusual. It seems to cannot deal with the current position cursor correctly.
This behavior is different from every software I used which support zooming or panning the view through mouse wheel.
Is this a bug?
As far as I can tell Powerdirector using Ctrl+Scroll wheel to perform the same function, it is just the display is different in Powerdirector. The fuction that is happening in Powerdirector is expanding and contracting the Timeline (zooming the resolution) of the timeline.
You can do the same thing by expanding or contracting the slider on the bottom Left of the User interface. You can also drag the time marks right or left to expand or contract the timeline.
I personally have never used the mouse scroll wheel to do any of those functions. There are too many other methods.
As with any new program, you have to learn the functions and new methods. It is not reasonable to expect all NLE's to use the same mouse and keyboard shortcuts.
That would be like expecting MAC to use the same keyboard shortcuts as Windows.
I knew that I can drag on the time marks to expand or contract the timeline. But firstly, it's slower than using the mouse wheel. And secondly, the draging operation only can be used to zoom, not to move in the timeline.
In the title, I said that the behavior of PD is different from most of other softwares. Actually, it's the only one I found difference on this point.
Besides Vegas and Premiere, other softwares, such as EAGLE (PCB design software), AutoCAD, and even Microsoft Visio all will zoom and move referencing to the cursor or position of mouse pointer, rather than only zoom.
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In Power Director, the behavior of mouse wheel in the timeline is unusual. It seems to cannot deal with the current position cursor correctly.
This behavior is different from every software I used which support zooming or panning the view through mouse wheel.
Is this a bug?
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