User Guide

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO 2.0

User Guide

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tuted. When no Out point is set, the Source Monitor uses the ending time of the clip to calculate duration, and the

Program Monitor uses the ending time of the last clip in the sequence to calculate duration.

Viewing area bars Correspond with the visible area of the time ruler in each monitor. They are the thin bars with

curved handles above each time ruler. You can drag the handles to change the width of the bar and thereby change

the scale of the time ruler below. Expanding the bar to its maximum width reveals the entire duration of the time

ruler, and contracting the bar zooms in for a more detailed view of the ruler. By dragging the center of the bar, you

can scroll the visible part of a time ruler without changing its scale.

Note: Although the Program Monitor’s current-time indicator corresponds with the current-time indicator in the

Timeline panel, changing the Program Monitor’s time ruler or viewing area bar does not affect the time ruler or viewing

area in the Timeline panel.

To view safe zones in the monitors

Safe zone guides are for your reference and are not included in previews or export.

Safe zones in Program Monitor

A. Action-safe zone B. Title-safe zone

❖ Click the Safe Margins button below the Source or Program Monitor. Click the button again to remove the

safe zone guides.

The standard action- and title-safe margins are 10% and 20%, respectively. However, you can change the dimensions

of the safe zones in the Project Settings dialog box. See “General settings” on page 25.

To set display quality

You can reduce the resolution of the Source or Program Monitors to decrease the processing demands on your

computer. Reducing the quality setting of the Program Monitor may allow your system to create real-time previews

of parts of the sequence that would otherwise require rendering.

❖ In the Source or Program Monitor panel menu, choose a quality setting:

Highest Quality Displays video in the monitor at full resolution.

Draft Quality Displays video in the monitor at one-half resolution.

Automatic Quality Measures playback performance and dynamically adjusts quality.

Note: All quality settings use a bilinear pixel resampling method to resize the video image. For exporting a sequence, a

cubic resampling method (which is superior to bilinear) is used.