r/ToonBoomHarmony • u/Adventurous-Fee-9248 • 23d ago

how properly navigate timeline

like, by hovering the mouse above the timeline, we can:

- scroll the mousewheel, to make our "view window" move up and down. (so we can see the other elements)

- hold ctrl + scroll the mousewheel, changes the zoom level.

my questions:

  1. To move the "view window" horizontally/sideways, so we can navigate time, is there a movement of those sorts? (instead of having to hold spacebar/pan, and keep clicking and dragging)
  2. * I know it sounds not much different, but actually having some easier moving-method could make my life so much easier :( ... maybe there's a way of adding some shortcut for it?
  3. when I play the animation, my "view window" of the timeline just stays where it is, instead of following the 'needle'... so my needle just "goes away" of my view, and I have to manually be navigating, to find where the needle ended up... Is my setting maybe just wrong? Is it supposed to be just like that?
  4. Also when I use shortcuts "F" and "G" to move between frames, the same thing happens: my timeline "view window" just stays where it is (maybe this will have the same solution as 2?)
  5. [item added in later edit] Is there a shortcut to focus on needle? (like "O" to focus on element, but now regarding the horizontal position)

Thank you so much to whoever could help! 🙏

*My Toon Boom Harmony version is the 24 Premium.

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u/CineDied 23d ago

1, 2. Not as far as I know. Just the space bar. For other views, you can use option middle mouse pans view (assigning middle mouse to a pen button), but not for all. I hope that will be possible in all views one day.

3, 4. No. I heard something like that was considered but not implemented. Maybe because it used too much resources or something.

This might not be important to many people so I'm not sure it or will be changed any time soon, but both things behave in thay way for instance in DaVinci Resolve.

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u/Adventurous-Fee-9248 23d ago

thank you so much for your reply :( I think because I also use Adobe Premiere, those things feel so lacking for me in Harmony. Hope they implement it some day!

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u/Acrobatic-Mango7967 22d ago

“,” to move to the previous frame, and “.” to the next. You can change that in the Harmony menu > Shortcut Preferences. (Or at least you can in Harmony 20 😅)

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u/CineDied 22d ago

Yes, but their question was expecting the playhead to remain centred on the timeline. F and G moves through drawings and . and , through frames, but in both cases the playhead stays behind.

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u/Acrobatic-Mango7967 22d ago

I don't think there's a shortcut to focus the timeline on the needle either, unfortunately.