Subtitles of the Movie

The Monitor Panel is going to be your viewport into the world of your timelines. You're going to see your footage and you're going to be able to use the monitor to determine where to place markers and also to see whether or not the text that's going to be in your menus and everything is going to be in a legal area. So let's go ahead and expand the monitor by clicking on this little arrow and click Maximize Frame so we can see some of the functionality. First of all, we see, of course we're in the monitor and what we could is change how we see our footage as well. If I click this drop-down, I can choose to blow it up pretty big. I can put it 25 percent, 50 percent and I could put it on Fit. So let me go ahead and collapse the panel again and show you what it does. Fit allows you to literally move things around the footage will scale itself accordingly. And it's always going to try to fit in that box because you had Fit here. Now what we can also do is we can add chapter markers to our production. And we can do it with these buttons all the way over here. Just go ahead and slide this guy all the way out and later on we'll talk about how to add markers and how to navigate with markers. Markers are simply a way for you viewers to choose what parts of the DVD they'd like to see currently, so they can go to their favorite action scene or the scene where the monster comes around the corner and scares everyone and that kind of thing. Or they can go to the slideshow or any part of the DVD that you specify with markers. We can also play the movie. We can use this guy here to step backwards one frame at a time and step forwards in time. As you see here, the time moves as I do this. We can also manipulate our subtitles with these buttons here and we'll talk more about subtitles later on. We can also click and scrub through time in our monitor as we can down here and with the current time indicator. Same exact way. Last but not least we have the ability to make sure, as I mentioned earlier, that we have everything in a legal position. This is our safe area and I do talk more about this in another part of the tutorial. So you can definitely make sure that your cousins and your friends and everybody's faces will wind up in view when you watch it on TV instead of just seeing an ear over here. So this is what the Monitor Panel will allow you to do; keep an eye on your footage and what's playing back in the timeline, allow you to play and move through your footage a little bit at a time, add chapter markers and to deal with your subtitles.