Things to Remember

The easiest way to think about the Source and Program Monitors is that the Source Monitor views source material yet to be edited, and the Program Monitor views sequences and edited material. They both perform the same task of navigating through media; they just look to different places for media to view. The Source Monitor finds the clips and identifies the sections you want to add to your sequences. Picking the location to add the clips and then navigating through the edited sequence of clips is what the Program Monitor handles.

New features such as unique Sub-Clips and the ability to display a Timecode Overlay During Edit allow for less clutter and more precision when using these panels.

This chapter has focused on the specific features and functions of both Monitor panels, but you have yet to explore the workflow for editing. To establish a workflow, you need to understand one more piece: the Timeline panel. The next chapter will tackle that task, then Chapter 6, "The Editing Workflow," will unify these windows during a proper walkthrough of the editing process.