Zooming while animating.

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Am really enjoying Animate Pro 2 as I gradually grasp its idiosyncrasies.

While I’ve been animating tho, I feel that it would be a great help if pressing Z key momentarily goes to the Zoom tool when Animate and transform button are enabled.

I’ve gotten so use to this shortcut during other parts of production that when I can’t use it while animating it’s a bit frustrating.

There maybe a technical reason why zooming this way isn’t allowed during animating but if possible it would be great if it could be a future feature.

Thanks,

Michael

2

I actually view this as a bit of a bug, because sometimes I can zoom and sometimes I can’t zoom, and instead it erases my entire drawing and I have to undo 5 or six times. While I enjoy drawing in the interface, because I work in Illustrator, Photoshop and after effects, I need a consistent zoom tool.

3



How do you do this Lilly?

Nothing happens when I hit these keys either in the numeric keyboard section or in the QWERTY section.

Or did you manually assign these keys?

Michael

4

Hi!

Are you using Flash pr Animate Pro shortcut flavor?

Instead of 1 and 2, it would be CTRL + + and CTRL + -

Marie-Eve

5

ah, that’s it Marie.

I’m using the Flash shortcuts so yes I use the CTRL + +, etc.

THanks for clarifying there. :slight_smile:

6

i still request zoom be attached to the rollbutton on the mouse.

7

Also guys, bare in mind that you can edit your shortcuts in the preferences.

8

i set up the buttons i have on my drawing tablet to “Zoom in” and “Zoom out”. the two buttons left are full screen (Ctrl+F) and the other one is “Shift”. the buttons on the pen itself are Undo (Ctrl+Z) and Right click. this is very handy that i don’t even need to reach out for my keyboard most of the time, if i had an extra button i would set it to “Delete” and this way i woulnd’t need the keyboard ever…
it’s very useful if you ever get a drawing tablet, to get one with as many side buttons as convenient.

Amin

9

It depends on where the focus is. When you click on Z when the focus is around the timeline, it does a clear exposure and pull. When you click on Z in the camera, it selects the zoom tool.

I personally always use the 1 and 2 keys to zoom in and zoom out.

~Lilly