Please make the mousewheel zoom the timeline

I don't think I've seen another media-editing application that doesn't offer this. So I did a search on it, and found that Resolve inexplicably requires you to hold a modifier key while rolling the mousewheel. Why? The wheel does nothing by itself, so why require a modifier key?

Update: Someone pointed out that if you have enough tracks to overflow the track area, it'll scroll them vertically. This makes sense, so I withdraw this request.

The expected behavior for unmodified mouse wheel is a scroll in the default direction. For web pages, vertically. For timelines, horizontally.

So it's normal to require a modifier for Zoom operations. (Alt in Resolve.)


To get the proper behavior in Resolve...

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As Jim says, the scroll wheel alone moves the timeline left or right. Shift+Scroll wheel enlarges the track the curser is over vertically, and Alt+Scroll Wheel zooms in expanding the Timeline horizontally. The modifiers give multi-functionality to the mouse scroll wheel.
Also, with Zoom around Mouse Pointer checked in the View dropdown menu, you can zoom to the curser.
So pointless they are not.

Thanks for the replies, but the mousewheel doesn't scroll the timeline on my system. As I noted, it does nothing, and that's not something I have ever changed. You have to hold Command to scroll left and right.

I didn't say modifiers were pointless. They offer useful variations. What's pointless is having the wheel do nothing by default, which is what it does.

Every other media-editing application I have zooms the timeline with the mousewheel and no modifiers, so I disagree that scrolling it horizontally is the expected behavior.

And a final gripe: "2D timeline scrolling" is meaningless. As opposed to what? 3-D? Assuming that non-2-D means 3-D, turning that off should result in zooming with the mousewheel because that's the third dimension: depth. And if you turn off the "2D" option, the timeline scrolls horizontally both with and without the modifier key. What a waste.

With 2D on, the unmodified scroll is vertical. (For when you have a LOT of tracks.) Fine for web pages. Out of place for timelines.

With 2D off, unmodified scroll is the expected horizontal.

But on or off, you still need Alt for Zoom.

As Jim says, with 2D scrolling enabled the mouse wheel by itself scrolls the tracks vertically. Personally I don't see a problem using the modifiers.
Pro Tools uses Alt+Wheel to zoom horizontally, Alt+Shift+Wheel to zoom vertically, and Shift+Wheel to scroll horizontally, so Resolve is not unique.

Fair enough! I didn't have enough tracks to require vertical scrolling at that time, so the wheel appeared useless.

Complaint rescinded.