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Premiere Workspace / The Monitor Window

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Let me now review the Premiere Pro Monitor window. The Monitor window is an open Premiere component where you see your footage, much as you would in a video monitor in a traditional video editing suites or flatbed editing tables. I'll cover this Premiere component in more detail in later movies, but let me introduce its main features at this time. The primary use of the Monitor window is to view clips. You can do this by double clicking on a clip in the Project window right here or by moving the Current Time Indicator in the Timeline. Notice that the monitor window consists of two parts. The Source Clip Monitor is over here to left, and the Program Clip Monitor is, or View, is over here to the right. Notice that here in the Source view, you're going to playing back clips here. The source clips here in the Project Panel Program Monitor displays or views clips here already on the Timeline. Notice this view will change as I scrub or move my current time indicator back and forth. You can magnify the video in each view. You'll do that by several ways, but I think the easiest way is to right-click, or Control click if you're on the Mac, right on the View and choose Magnification right here. I can do Fit, ten percent, 25 percent; there's 50 percent for the Source View. And let's do 100 percent for the Program view. The Monitor window can be customized to your personal preferences or to the task at hand. Each view works much the same way. However, you can load more than one clip into the Source Monitor at one time. Notice that I have a drop-down right here, and I have actually four clips loaded here. Here in the Program view, I can either close it or close all or I can look at a different program sequence. If I go up to File, New, and create a new sequence, Sequence 8, notice that when I drop down here in the Program view, I can now look at different sequences. So there's Sequence 7, and then I don't have anything in Sequence 9, but I can view that sequence as well. So those are the slight differences between the two views. The controls here on the bottom are the same. I'll be reviewing these in much more detail later but notice that you have a Play, Stop, as well as a Step Back, Left, Step Forward, Right, Go to Next Marker, Set Unnumbered Marker, Set Out-point, Set In-point. I have some editing controls here: Loop, Safe Margins. Those show you the Safe Margins for movement and for titles, as well as different kinds of edit: Insert Edit, Overlay Edit, Toggle, Take, Audio and Video. So I'll be reviewing each of these techniques in detail a little bit later. Usually clips are viewed as they would appear on any TV monitor. However, you can set the View Display to show videos in different views. For example, if I right again or Control click on my Program view, Display mode pops open, and I can look at Alpha or Display mode, All Scopes, Display mode, Vector scope, Display mode, YC Wave form. So this just gives you more information about the display here. And again, there's the RGB Parade view, the breakdown of the RGB colors, and the last two are Vector YC wave and RGB Vector YV Wave RGB Parade is the last one there. In addition to these various views, you can also use the Monitor window's time ruler to navigate through a clip, as well as scrub; use the Scrub tools here. Perhaps the best way to demonstrate that is to go back to Program view and let's Display mode, Composite Video, and let's go to this video here and scrub this. I'm dragging this with my mouse. This takes a little bit of practice, but it's a very useful tool for very fine, finely navigating to a location on a clip, so then you can edit it at that point, and so on. Now I'll be reviewing these controls and the others that I did not mention here and how and when you'll use them in later movies.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
Author: James Gonzalez
SKU: 33834
ISBN: 1-934743-40-2
Release Date: 2007-12-20
Duration: 8 hrs / 98 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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