Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 122)

116 USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Monitoring assets
Last updated 11/6/2011
For sequences based on editing modes other than RED Cinema, select one of the following:
Highest Quality Displays video in the monitor at full resolution.
Draft Quality Displays video in the monitor at one-half standard-definition resolution, or one-quarter resolution for
drafts of HD clips.
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.
For sequences based on the RED Cinema editing mode, select one of the following:
• Full Resolution
• Half Resolution
• Quarter Resolution
• Eighth Resolution
• Sixteenth Resolution
Note: Use the fractional resolution options for editing RED footage, when the RED plug-in is installed.
Change magnification
The Source Monitor and Program Monitor scale video to fit into the available area. You can change the magnification
setting for each view to see the video in more detail, or to increase the size of the pasteboard area around the image (to
adjust motion effects more easily, for example).
1 Choose a magnification setting from the View Zoom Level menu (to the right of the current time display) in the
Source Monitor or Program Monitor.
In the Source Monitor, percentage values refer to the size of the source media. In the Program Monitor, percentage
values refer to the image size specified by the sequence settings. Fit scales the video to fit in the monitor’s available
viewing area.
2 To change the visible area of a monitor, use the monitor’s scroll bars to change the visible area of the video image.
Scroll bars appear when the current size of the monitor can’t contain the entire image.
Open or clear a clip in the Source Monitor
To view and edit source clips listed in the Project panel or individual clip instances in a sequence, open the clips in the
Source Monitor. The Source menu, accessed from the Source Monitor tab, lists open clips.
1 To open a clip, do any of the following:
• Double-click the clip in the Project or Timeline panel, or drag a clip from the Project panel to the Source Monitor.
The clip appears in the Source Monitor and its name is added to the Source menu.
• Drag multiple clips or an entire bin from the Project panel into the Source Monitor, or select multiple clips in the
Project panel and double-click them. Clips are added to the Source menu in the order in which they were selected,
and the last clip selected appears in the Source Monitor.
• Choose the name of the clip you want to see from the Source menu (click the triangle to the right of the current
clip’s name on the Source tab to make the menu appear).
The Source menu lists master clips by name. Clips opened from a sequence are listed by their sequence name, clip
name, and starting time in the sequence.