Adobe PREMIERE 5 User Manual page 17

ADOBE PREMIERE 5.0 9
User Guide
Monitor window
The new Monitor window in effect combines the Clip, Preview, and Trimming windows of past
versions into a single window, better replicating a professional video-editing suite. The window
includes two views: Source view for playing and editing individual clips, and Program view for
displaying the contents of the Timeline. The Monitor window has two modes, edit and trim.
Importantly, many of the essential editing tasks can now be accomplished with keyboard
shortcuts. Other related changes include:
Easily enter trim mode by pressing Control (Windows)
More precise and accessible trimming
or Command (Mac OS) + T (or choose Trim Mode from the Monitor window menu).
Preview how a source clip fits into the video program—
Ganging, or synchronized playback
before adding it to the Timeline—by using the gang button in the Monitor window. This
synchronizes the source and program controllers and previews.
Insert, Overlay, Lift, and Extract buttons Click buttons (or use keyboard equivalents) to accom-
plish these key editing tasks rather than dragging clips into the Timeline.
Take advantage of NTSC or PAL monitors by collapsing (detaching the
Flexible viewing options
controllers from the Monitor window). You can switch to single view mode which displays only
the selected view in the center of the window, and switch among active clips by choosing their
names from a convenient pop-up menu. Optionally, you can have clips open each in their own
separate clip window, just as in earlier versions of Premiere.
New project management and media management features
The Project window supports many new database fields you can use to categorize clips for
sorting and searching; Premiere now also provides user-defined fields. Display options in the
Project window have been improved, and you can now display text-only information about
your source material. Other organizational capabilities include a cleaner and more straight-
forward handling of source clips (to avoid display of duplicate source clips for each instance
used in the Timeline), an auto-loading feature (so that clips added to the Timeline or Monitor
window become listed in the Project window), and the improved use of storage bins in the
Project window.