I cannot scroll the video sequence editor to the left/ight.
It seems I can only zoom in and out.
I can scroll all other windows left and right, just not the video sequence editor.
Is it a blender bug (2.49a)?
Pressing the middle mouse button and moving the mouse left/right scrolls through the window - time wise (left/right). Pay attention to the time line at the bottom of the window to see the effect. If it’s not working for you in an existing .blend, perhaps try it in a blank .blend, perhaps your user preferences have been altered from default.
Randy
why are you using 2.49a when 2.49b is out?
@loopduplicate. I do have 2.49b and I have added a symlink to the executable in my ~/bin/ folder. It works when I start blender from the console. However, the default version in my current distribution is 2.49a, So, when I do ALT+F2 and start blender from the KDE application launcher, the older version starts up. So far, I have not observed any difference between the two versions (I do only simple stuff). If you know how to make is so that the whole KDE session gives preference to the application in ~/bin/, do let me know.
@revolt_dandy. Sorry for the late reply. Your comment helped a lot. At least it works by pressing the middle mouse button. This way, I can at least do some useful work. Thanks a lot.
I get the same results as indicated above on a new blender project with 2.49b.
What tricked me is the fact that in most window type, I could do CTRL+middle mouse to scroll left and right. It’s only in the video sequence editor that it does not work.
Actually, I would consider this a blender UI bug. The UI is not consistent.
e.g. simple scrolling zooms in and out in most windows, and CTRL+scroll pans left and right:
BUT
- it is the exact reverse in a button window.
- as indicated above, CTRL+scroll does not work in the audio editor window.
I have never tried 2.5. Is this inconsistent behaviour fixed by default on the upcoming release?
there was a blender version with this bug,
but pls. dont ask me which revision.
I know, i thought “damn” the first time, when i noticed i could not zoom the video-player in the video-sequence - but scrolling in the video, jump from frame to frame, back or forwards could be a question of the video-codec.
Check you did use a default setting, maybe a generated video from inside of blender as jpeg-video with default fps of 24 (or 25).
If it is only the loaded video from other source, it may be there is used a setting with i-frames, that makes it impossible to do frame-skips.
Maybe anyone has already noticed videos where it is impossible to do a small back/forward skip and only large jumps work.
The behaviour described above is observed on a the latest stable version, on a new blender file (i.e. without any video added nor anything done). Just do file -> new , try each view from SR1 to SR5 and try both scroll and CTRL-scroll and you’ll get the different, inconsistent behaviour described above.
We can all work with it, but I consider it to be a usability (UI) bug.