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94 GENERAL FUNCTIONS IN THE PROJECT WINDOW
If you roll the mouse wheel upwards, you will zoom into the image.
If you roll the mouse wheel downwards, you will zoom out of the image.
Zooming with the mouse
An elegant method of zooming which requires a little practice and skill is left clicking on the
time line, keeping the button pressed, and dragging the mouse vertically. By dragging the
mouse up you can zoom out of the project and you can zoom in when you do the reverse.
Simultaneously, you can change the range borders or the play cursor position with
horizontal mouse movements, depending on whether you position the mouse at the
beginning of the action on the grid bar, or on the marker bar.
This way you can position the play cursor precisely in one go: set the desired playback
position roughly by clicking somewhere in the marker bar. Then move the mouse
downwards while holding down the mouse button and zoom into the project. Correct the
mouse position by moving it horizontally and finally zoom out of the project by moving the
mouse upwards.
You can deactivate this function at any time via the system settings ("Y -> Keyboard, menu
& mouse -> Mouse -> No zoom when moving the mouse vertically in the timeline").
Zoom tool (shortcut: "Z")
You can temporarily switch to "Zoom" mode by pressing "Z" and then dragging out a lasso
with the mouse. By holding down the "Z" key and left clicking, you can zoom into a project
in stages; right clicking while holding down "Z" zooms out in stages.
Zooming with the scrollbars
The scrollbars can also be used to change the zoom levels. Once the mouse pointer
moves over the left and right border of the horizontal scrollbar, it will change into a double
arrow. This can be used to move the scrollbar borders, which also changes the length of
the section displayed in the window. Its length will then be shown at the left of the
horizontal scrollbar.
Similary, you can use the vertical scrollbars to zoom into the track display.
Scrolling
The visible section follows the play cursor in so-called Autoscroll mode during playback.
All commands for setting the play cursor via keyboard or via "Range menu -> Move play
cursor" also move the section with the play cursor. When moving the play cursor with the
arrow keys the section will be moved as soon as you leave the window (page mode), with
the keyboard shortcut "Alt+Arrow" the section will always be moved in such a way that the
play cursor remains in the middle of the VIP window. The "Home" and "End" keys move the
play cursor as well as the visible section to the beginning or end of the project.
Should it be the case that you wish to move the visible section without moving the play
cursor, you have the following options: