Strange timeline zoom behavior

[Mjpatey]

There's a lot to like in OpenShot, but a big issue I experience is with zooming. I have a video project that's about 17 minutes long. Let's say the playback head is at, say, 10:00 while the zoom slider is set to "7 seconds" resolution. Then I want to zoom in tighter. Using the zoom bar, it does indeed zoom in tighter... but to a spot 5 minutes earlier in the timeline. It never centers its zooming in/out on the playback head, or on any other reference point I can figure out. I then have to manually scroll back through the timeline to get back to where I was working.

To me, it would be ideal if the timeline would zoom in and out centered on the playback cursor, because that's where I'm working.

-Mark

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

I just happen to be working on this feature tonight, so I fixed this also. The zooming now respects your scrollbar positions, and continues to keep things centered, as you would expect while zooming in and out.

Also, CTRL + Scrollwheel has been added, and now zooms in and out of the timeline, of course, while still maintaining your scrollbar positions. This will be available in the next version... which I will publish soon. Thanks!

[Mjpatey (mjpatey)]

Thank me? Thank YOU!!! Wow, that was amazingly responsive... I'm glad my timing lined up with yours so perfectly.

So will any of this show up in the PPA in incremental updates, or just in the next full release?

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

They will show up in the PPA in the next day or two. Thanks,
-Jonathan

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Mjpatey <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank me? Thank YOU!!! Wow, that was amazingly responsive... I'm glad
> my timing lined up with yours so perfectly.
>
> So will any of this show up in the PPA in incremental updates, or just
> in the next full release?
>
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> Strange timeline zoom behavior
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486816
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>
> Status in OpenShot Video Editor: Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
> There's a lot to like in OpenShot, but a big issue I experience is with
> zooming. I have a video project that's about 17 minutes long. Let's say
> the playback head is at, say, 10:00 while the zoom slider is set to "7
> seconds" resolution. Then I want to zoom in tighter. Using the zoom bar,
> it does indeed zoom in tighter... but to a spot 5 minutes earlier in the
> timeline. It never centers its zooming in/out on the playback head, or on
> any other reference point I can figure out. I then have to manually scroll
> back through the timeline to get back to where I was working.
>
> To me, it would be ideal if the timeline would zoom in and out centered on
> the playback cursor, because that's where I'm working.
>
> -Mark
>

[Daniel Ellis (danellisuk)]

The CTRL+scrollwheel for zooming is an excellent addition for
usability. While you are working in this area, may I also recommend
SHIFT+scrollwheel for scrolling horizontally?

2009/11/24 Andy Finch <email address hidden>:
> ** Changed in: openshot
>       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
>
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> Strange timeline zoom behavior
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486816
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> OpenShot Video Editor.
>

[Dmitri (ryba4)]

Still a problem in 1.4.0. I expect timeline to expand around mouse cursor when I zoom, but instead it expands around 0:00.

Also, mousewheel is not used, while it would be very convenient to shift+scroll to move left & right on the timeline.

[Dmitri (ryba4)]

Correction: it zooms around the left edge of timeline box, but still not under mouse cursor.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Please test against the latest version.