Hi. Is there still any simple solution for modifying mouse wheel and zoom behaviour in Vegas timeline?

Majority of apps, including digital audio workstations (DAW) (and also many video editors behave in following way so I think you could say that it is kind of de facto standard.

1. MouseWheel: Scroll-Up, Scroll-Down on timeline

2. Ctrl-Mousewheel: Zoom
- in web browsers, photo apps pdf apps, file managers, etc... it is usually real zoom. In most DAWs and many video editors it is horizontal zoom.

3. Shift-Mousewheel: Scroll-Left, Scroll-Right

4. Zoom Centering: Mouse Position
- this is most common and also intuitive behaviour in majority of apps.

Now after researching for a while I've understood that a lot of people that are used to Vegas consider it a strengh that it zooms to playhead instead of mouse cursor and maybe even that zoom is mapped to Mousewheel instead of ctrl-mousewheel.

Anyway for those of us who are using DAWs 95% of time and video editor 5% of time (basically open video editor couple of times a year) this makes life very difficult as wheel behaves opposite to what you are used to.


Most logical solution would be to have 2 setting under preferences named something like:
"enable alternative timeline mouse wheel behaviour (WHEEL = zoom, CTRL-WHEEL = vertical scroll)"

"enable zoom centering to mouse cursor instead of playhead"

I've tried to switch mouse behaviour with AutoHotKey and it works for making ctrl-wheel to zoom BUT it DOES NOT work reliably for making wheel to scroll. Below is sample of what I've tried in AutoHotKey.

; VEGAS
#IfWinActive, ahk_exe vegas220.exe
^WheelUp::Send, {WheelUp}
^WheelDown::Send, {WheelDown}
WheelUp::Send {Ctrl Down}{WheelUp}{Ctrl Up}
WheelDown::Send {Ctrl Down}{WheelDown}{Ctrl Up}

If anybody know how to make autohotkey wheel --> vert scroll mapping reliable I'd be eager to hear.

Anyway it will complicate life elsewhere on Vegas UI (fortunately I spend 95% of time in timeline or FX panel).




Anyway even AutoHotKey does not solve the zoom to mouse issue. Is there any easy solutions for that?


Thanks.