This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Playing Clips in the Program Monitor
We spent a lot of time in Chapter 4 detailing the configuration options for the Source Monitor, and virtually all work identically in the Program Monitor.
Whereas the Source Monitor displays clips opened from the Project panel or Timeline, the Program Monitor displays the output from the Timeline 
. That’s why the timecode in the Program Monitor is always the same as the one in the Timeline. What’s shown in the Program Monitor is the frame located at the playhead, and the aforementioned timecodes mark the location of the playhead.
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You can move the playhead via the playback controls in the Program Monitor, via keyboard shortcuts in the Timeline, or simply by dragging the playhead in either panel. However you do it, the Program Monitor and Timeline forever stay in sync.
Configuring the Program Monitor
Many of the Program Monitor’s key configuration controls are located in the panel menu 
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The Program Monitor’s panel menu contains many configuration options.
- Mode selection: Change the viewing mode from Composite Video to a range of video scopes mostly used during color and brightness correction.
- Control interlaced display: Display the first field, the second field, or both during interlaced display.
- Playback Resolution: Control video resolution during playback and while the video is paused.
- Show Transport Controls: Editors who exclusively use keyboard shortcuts can hide the transport controls entirely.
- Show Dropped Frame Indicator: A small ball in the Program Monitor that turns orange when you drop frames during playback.
- Time Ruler Numbers: Enabled by default in the Timeline, but disabled by default in the Program Monitor.
- Safe Margins: Useful when producing for broadcast.
The following controls are located in the Program Monitor:
- Select Zoom Level
: Controls the resolution of the video shown in the Program Monitor.
- Select Playback Resolution
: Controls the quality of the video during real-time playback (duplicates the Playback Resolution option available in the panel menu).
This controls playback resolution, or the quality of the real-time preview. - Button Editor: Opens the Button Editor, which lets you pick and choose the buttons in the Program Monitor
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The Button Editor lets you configure the buttons shown in the Program Monitor.
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About Lift and Extract
Adobe invests significant thought and energy into streamlining and simplifying the Premiere Pro interface, and to the extent that the Lift and Extract buttons made the cut as default buttons on the Program Monitor, it means that Adobe feels they are important tools.
The workflow is the same for both the Lift button and the Extract button: Set In and Out points in the Timeline 
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To use Lift or Extract, start by marking In and Out points in the Timeline.
Lift deletes the selected region but leaves a gap in the Timeline 
. Extract deletes the selected region and closes the gap 
. Both functions copy the deleted portion of the clip to the clipboard so you can paste it somewhere else.
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Extract deletes the selected region and then closes the gap by shifting content over from the right.
Some producers like using the Life and Extract functions; I prefer using Ttimeline-based tools you’ll learn over the next two chapters, such aslike the Razor and Ripple Delete functions, to accomplish the identical edits.