Working with Monitor Panel in premiere pro_ Part 5

 

Working with Monitor Panel

The Monitor panel displays still images, audios, color mattes, and titles. It helps in assembling and editing clips. It has a dual view mode, which by default includes the Source Monitor and Program Monitor. You can preview and edit the clips in the Source Monitor, while Program Monitor can be used to view and edit the overall sequence.

 

Viewing Source and Program Monitor controls You can show or hide controls from the panel menus of the Source and Program Monitors.

Select or deselect the option in the panel menu to show or hide the following:

• Transport controls

 • Markers

 • Time ruler numbers

• Dropped frames indicator

Viewing Modes in a Monitor Panel

The Monitor panel has view modes other than showing the Composite view of the clip or the sequence.

Composite Video mode

displays the preview of resultant clip or sequence.

Audio Waveform 

option displays the audio waveform of the clip.

Alpha mode 

displays the alpha channel of the clip or sequence.

Vectorscope mode

displays the hue and saturation values on a circular graph.

YC Waveform displays the luminance values of the video.

YCbCr Parade mode displays Y, Cb, and Cr components of the video separately, in IRE. 

Vertical axis

defines the video signal intensity of the components.

 

Intensity

value at top can be used to increase the display intensity of the graph, but it doesn’t have an effect on the video.

RGB Parade mode

displays the video signal intensity of the R,G, and B components of the video. Just like the YCbRb Parade mode, the Intensity value at top adjusts the display intensity of the graph.

The Vect/YC Wave/YCbCr Parade mode and Vect/YC Wave/RGB Parade mode are a combination of different modes.  

All Scopes mode

displays all the scopes and graphs together