I just want to add that I'm truly impressed with those of you whose worst workflow bottlenecks are between a movement of the mouse and a keystroke. That's skill...

Is there any way to turn on the slider zoom for the timeline ?

I like to be able to use my mouse.

GLenn

Thanks Jim

It would be nice if when you moused over it it would say "slide to zoom"

At least that feature is still there unlike the ones you guys are talking about.

GLenn

The mouse uses about 5 pixels of extra space for blind people and in turn makes it feel Tonka Toy playschoolish.     I really want to go back to the old version just because of this.

Once again...   If I'm this inaccurate with a mouse I probably shouldn't be using adobe products to start with.

cliffclof wrote:

 

The mouse uses about 5 pixels of extra space for blind people and in turn makes it feel Tonka Toy playschoolish.     I really want to go back to the old version just because of this.

 

 

Once again...   If I'm this inaccurate with a mouse I probably shouldn't be using adobe products to start with.

 

I couldn't agree more with this post. I TOTALLY agree. It seems like it snaps to somethign within an inch. I totally agree that we all know how to use a mouse... a LITTLE help is nice, but LITTLE is the key word.

I'd like to chime in an agree that the new large red devil's tail is kind of like the old paper clip character from Microsoft Office, unwanted help that we should have an option to turn off.    Just because we request more keyboard functionality doesn't mean we are pure keyboard users that don't use the mouse, I would guess that would be a pretty small minority of users.

Cheers,

Gerry

I must declare an interest here - I am an addicted mouse editor.  I certainly find a combinastion of the default workspace and the greater precision needed with mouse placement an impediment in two areas -

•      achieving a ripple delete in a narrow gap - Premiere always wants me to trim

•      when the work area bar has been set to the width of the timeline, the right hand grab handle is a bare fingernail hold, whereas the left hand one is fine.

cliffclof wrote:

 

SimonHy wrote:

 

I'm quite open to changing the way I work, I just want to work the fastest way possible while limiting tendon damage. For me, in other NLEs, that's meant working with a keyboard.

 

I want to understand completely.  I use the keyboard a lot to edit very quickly, but I feel I am using it less than a lot of people in this thread while missing some things that could speed up my workflow.    Can someone please provide me with a link to a video that shows off the flow of keyboard editing in a concise manner.

 

Thanks.

I know of no such videos. In fact it reminds me of a webcomic I read about portraying realistic hacking in movies, where a 30 second clip of someone sitting in front of a computer is revealed to be a 12 hour timelapse. By that I mean I don't think it would be a very visual thing to show. Plus editors are often a "behind the camera only" kind of bunch.

I don't think there's any rules to mastering keyboard editing. My philosophy is that everytime something comes up that I'm going to do more than once, I take the time to figure out if there's a keyboard shortcut for it, knowing it will save time in the long run, and slowly build up a repertoire of shortcuts. The other thing is that when people in this thread are talking about really fast keyboard editing, they're usually talking about Avid of FCP. There's quite a few limitations on keyboard editing in Premiere. A lot of functions having no shortcuts available, the lack of a decent keyboard based track patching system,  the need to bring up the window that a shortcut applies to before using that shortcut (effectively doubling the number of keystrokes required to do a lot of tasks), and the need to click on a lot of things before shortcuts will work, all stand out to me as the biggest issues for Premiere in this regard.

Jas Brooks wrote:

 

Here's a useful fix to make several of the most-used timeline cursors much more slimline and inobtrusive. It works by simply replacing the files inside your contents, so need a minimal degree of technical knowledge to implement.

 

I strongly recommend checking it out:

 

http://philipbloom.net/2012/07/07/premiereicons/

I don't care about the size of the icon. That's not what bothers me. It's the proximity "helper" that drives me crazy. You get within 1 inch of a cut and the cursor changes. I'd MUCH rather the proximity "helper" revert back to they it REALLY helped in CS5.5 on back.

Sometimes you need a helping hand.

It's nice when you fall down that your buddy is there to extend a hand to help you up. But when you're just walking along and he wants to hold your hand the whole time you feel like getting a new buddy.

Thinner cursors and less space for the proximity "helper" sound like great feature requests: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

How's this for a feature request? Make that feature request link easier to get your requests in and out.  I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to submit a quick feature request but then never get to it because I don't want to have to fill out all the REQUIRED spaces.

I know it's off topic, but I surely can't be the only one who's said, "ahhhh, forget it. Not worth it."

If there were a button on the HELP menu that said "submit feature request," with a quick form, then you'd already have all the other foo-foo info (Adobe ID, program, OS, email address, etc.) and the user just has to type his/her request and hit enter.

Sorry to get so sidetracked, but I only submit 1 out of 10 of my "wish list" requests because it takes too much time the "right" way.

I second the request to turn off Edit Point Selection and trim as it worked before.  I'm accidentally switching trim modes.  This causes me to have to undo an edit and redo work.

tclark513 wrote:

 

Jas Brooks wrote:

 

Here's a useful fix to make several of the most-used timeline cursors much more slimline and inobtrusive. It works by simply replacing the files inside your contents, so need a minimal degree of technical knowledge to implement.

 

I strongly recommend checking it out:

 

http://philipbloom.net/2012/07/07/premiereicons/

 

Cheers,

 

jason

 

I wonder if we can use the cursors from CS5?

CS5 cursors work in CS6.  Just need to re-name them.