Specifications

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A Digital Video Primer
Use Source Monitor controls to play, pause, and scrub a clip. Use tools to set video, audio, and
program In and Out points. Set and move among clip and sequence markers, perform insert and
overlay edits, move forward and backward frame-to-frame, or edit point to edit point. Editing
clips in the Source Monitor dynamically updates the clip in the timeline (or timelines).
Use the Program Monitor to play back your timelines with eects and transitions.
In addition to the three main areas of the workspace, there are numerous other panels that pro-
vide information and functionality. For example:
• e Trim monitor provides even more precise control than the Source Monitor over ripple,
rolling, slip, and slide edits. You can view live updates in the Trim monitor, which shows an
edit in progress as you’re adjusting the clip.
• You’ll use the bins in the Eects panel to keep your video and audio eects and transitions
organized; use the Eect Controls panel to apply eects and transitions to your clips.
• In the Audio Mixer, you can adjust settings while listening to audio and viewing video tracks.
• e Titler gives you the ability to design sophisticated titles for use in your productions, by using
precongured templates or working from scratch.
• e Info and History panels will be familiar if you’ve worked in other Adobe applications. e
Info panel displays vital information about the selected item; the History panel lets you navi-
gate among the available levels of Undo.
Most panels include menus that appear by clicking a button. All panels have context menus, the
content of which depends on the current task or mode.
The Program Monitor
The Timeline panel
Multiple timelines
Nested timelines
on video track 1
A tab for each timeline appears in
the Program Monitor. Clicking a tab
brings the related tab forward in the
Timeline panel, or sends it back.
The Tool panel
can be docked
to the Timeline
panel or free-
oating.