How often do you wish to zoom in at a particular spot horizontally at mouse pointer?
Ctrl + mousewheel zooms horizontally, but so often then one needs to
manually reposition the view to get back to the horizontal location where one was editing.
So my request is to have Ctrl + mousewheel zoom in/out at mouse pointer.
To zoom in on a particular point under the mouse would help workflow I think.
This way we have more control as to where we are zooming in and out to.
Iād love it most to be able to zoom in at the playhead with Ctrl + mousewheel. Or, as you say, perhaps expand horizontally while keeping the playhead under the current mouse pointer position.
Yes that āzoomsā vertically. Iām interested in expanding the timeline horizontally without getting disoriented. To stay oriented I think to expand horizontally while staying centered on the mouse position would be nice.
Or perhaps better yet stay centered on the playhead while the horizontal zoom expands in and out with Ctrl + mousewheel.
Sorry, I meant Kdenlive editor has a known issue with Windows where spacebar does not play/stop properly. So that keeps me from exploring that editor much for now.
Edit: even though it has the zooming feature I describe here.
All the newer versions of Kdenlive (for Windows) have this spacebar bug. The only version Iāve found that works properly with Windows is 17.04.3. You can find that version here: https://www.videohelp.com/software/Kdenlive/old-versions
Why ?
simply because whan i set the pointer to a place in the timeline, hit CTRL and wheel, i expect ( like i quess 99% users do ) to zoom on mouse.
If not, what is the use of mouse cursor ?
I love shotcut for many reasons ! and i use it each time i need to edit video.
Itās an almost perfect app ( that i use to promote around me ). But everyone that came to use it from my advice all tell me the zoom with CTRL-wheel has illogical behaviour.
Audacity/blender/unity3D does this very well !
( and as a former programmer i know itās quite simple to code )
So ? Any chance this small revolution happens ?
Or will users be stuck on devs choices and have to click on the horiz scrollbar after each zoom ?
Happy shotcutting !!!
EDIT: maybe iām dumb and didnāt install the latest version that integrates this great feature ?
i go check right awayā¦
EDIT2: nahā¦
dowloaded latest versionā¦ opened a project, CTRL-wheeled the timelineā¦ same shitā¦
I have more important things to work on, and I personally never use the mouse wheel. Gonna leave the easy stuff for others. Why not you? You already have the code in Shotcut/share/shotcut/qml/views/timeline/.
Oh man i dunno you but as i can believe it youāre THE heart coder ?
1st of all i have to say you deserve my respect !
for making this awesome tool
and for beeing here, listenning at complaints like mine
I confess am somewhat ashamed for my kinda tauntā¦
I didnāt intend to offence anyoneā¦
Iām a simple user. Loving your work. And i promised to myself that if i manage to earn some creds, part of them will come to you ( and also other open and free tools ).
I wish i had time for doing what i want. But you know the dev/coding reality much better than i do ^^
Making changes, check for approval, check for no bugs, check for user receptionā¦ Is hell.
Make my own version ? sure i could ( provided i can dive in your code ) catch the structure, change the lil part iām interrested in, and use itā¦ you make an update and all has to be done again ? nah
As iām not sure my changes wonāt fork the project ( yes iām dumb enough for thinking this has to be in the trunk ) i wonāt put my fingers in the gearsā¦
Youāre right saying you leave simple things to others !
I love this as itās the way i see things.
But as i said, am a user. Setup a dev environment, Āµ$studio, get the source, compile to someting that works, change the part i wanna be changedā¦ itās quite long ! i also have more important things to work on
I guess what i speak of will take weeks to meā¦ Minutes to you ?
do you have devs who took your work, who are able to make shotcut evolve ?
I guess yes ^^ i hope so as shotcut is really a piece of nice work !
Not sure of what iāll do now. But no doubt iāll go on CTRL+wheel and use the sliderā¦
Good luck on your important things and happy shotcutting
Looked at the sourceā¦
QML and java codeā¦ Sorry to say iām uncompetent on this.
I know assembly, C, C++, some java, python and many other typed languages but unable to change this kind of code that has legions of links here and there and here also and that are not typed so that reading the code dont tell what type you passā¦
i think iāll go on grumbling on thisā¦ as i know that for those who have the knowledge itās simply a 10 minutes changeā¦
@pitibonom, SDKs for Shotcut are available here. Scroll to where it says " Technical Notes" and youāll see the SDKs. Take your time to go through them and feel free to do pull requests over at Shotcutās github page here.
Itās funny because I was thinking about a suggestion very similar to this except that instead of it zooming in to the mouse the zoom would center on wherever the playhead is.
Yes. Thereās no doubt each user has his own needs.
I guess you know this much better than i do ^^
Iām glad i met the master: @shotcut but it appears he left his baby to others; wich is a good thing !
To be honest during my former ( and loooong as am somewhat old ) develompent career, i used to refuse the āmake options for all users needsā.
hehe. I used to discuss and deal for the usefullness of some things and for the errrā¦ useless-fullness of some othersā¦
An app has to keep as simple and small as possible.
You got here 2 schools:
1 wanting the zoom around the timeline cursor
1 wanting the zoom around the mouse cursor
When i say āzoomā i talk about the horrizontal zoom ( as the vertical one is just useless )
wouldnāt it be a funny idea to let the user choose in preferences ?
āzoom on time-cursorā VS āzoom on mouseā
if i were wealthy and having time, i sincerely would set up the whole project, compile it and change it !
Too bad iām not and as @shotcut said in a just and clear way: i got better things to do.
I doubt his choice i to let shotcut die. Wich means there are ppl ( mebe you ? ) taking his relay.
I sincerely hope so !
now, what you guys will do with this masterpiece ?
I donāt say iām right asking for what i ask.
Iām a user of many tools that zoom the way i explain.
and i wonāt leave shotcut ( unless i find a better feer app ) -> this is why i ask those things.
maybe make a poll ?
Or simply set a flag in prefs:
zoom mouse/zoom time cursor
As i said, for those having the whole project installed and knowing QT, the code and all its links, i believe itās a work taking minutes
You misunderstood him. He is constantly working on Shotcut but there are only 2 devs working on Shotcut right now. So he has prioritized certain development Shotcut goals ahead of others. Thatās why he wrote āI have more important things to work onā.
If you know programming you could help. Thatās why he wrote āWhy not you?ā.
This change has been made for the next version 20.02.
Wow, truly I am super excited about this. I love this feature.
For me it makes me feel like, ah, yes, zoom in on the exact spot that Iām working on.
Thank you so much.
Very much looking forward to this wonderful Shotcut workflow improvement.
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