Zooming and Scrolling settings.

[Coachz]

After a lot of thought I think I have finally come up with a good setup for zooming and scrolling. These might even be great defaults for Reaper. If you have any questions about how I'm doing a specific action just ask. I hope it helps.

prefs / Editing Behavior / vertical zoom center

	Vertical Zoom Center
		Track at center of view
		Top Visible Track
		Last Selected Track
	x	Track under mouse cursor
		
	Horizontal zoom center
		Edit cursor or play cursor
		Edit cursor
		Center of View
	x	Mouse cursor

SELECTING__________________

Shift+drag			Razor select items (deselect if nothing selected)
ctrl+click 			Deselects all if empty area is ctrl/clicked

ZOOMING__________________

F1				Zoom project
F2				Zoom project with taller tracks

left drag			Marquee zoom items
shift+left drag			Marquee select items
ctrl+left drag			Marquee add to item selection

ctrl+mousewheel			vertical zoom in/out	 	mousewheel
alt+mousewheel			horizontal zoom in/out 	mousewheel
shift+mousewheel		vert/horiz zoom together	mousewheel

w				horizontal zoom width
		
alt+click			zoom item under cursor
alt+i				View: Toggle zoom to selected items
alt+t				zoom selected tracks
					
alt+up				zoom in vertical
alt+down			zoom out vertical
alt+right			zoom in snap to playback cursor   
alt+left			zoom out snap to playback cursor 

z				undo zoom
x				redo zoom
		
		
SCROLLING_________________

Home				Custom: Go to start of project click bar  (goes to top and start)
End				Transport: Go to end of project		(goes to end, no scrolling)
		
mousewheel			scroll vertical		mousewheel
shft+alt+mousewheel		scroll horizontal 	mousewheel
ctrl+home			scroll to top of project	
ctrl+end			scroll to bottom of project

left				scroll view left
right				scroll view right
up				scroll view up
down				scroll view down

[foxAsteria]

That's quite a lot of shortcuts dedicated to zoom and scroll...you're using all that?

Here's mine:
1: toggle zoom selected items
2: screenset custom zoom level 2
3: screenset custom zoom level 3
4: zoom project
tab: tog zoom time selection
5: endless encoder for track selection
6: dragging on the ruler, right click drag in arrange for short hand scrolling and navigator for all else
7. oh, and (shift +) backspace for the indispensible restore previous/next zoom/scroll position actions (for when I mess up my view and need to get back to the one I was just looking at)

Mainly I find I use a couple different comfortable zoom levels for most tasks, so just set them up in screensets for quick access.


Which actions do you have assigned to ctrl+home/end? I've needed that on occasion and can't find an action for it.

[serr]

I didn't like what seemed to me like a mishmash between the default zoom and scroll commands.

I just did this:
Scrolling scrolls (horiz or vert - mouse wheel or 2 finger on trackpad))
Command-scroll zooms (timeline or track height depending on focus)
Option-command-scroll zooms waveform height (via custom action)

That's it. Never looked back.