You can preview all or part of a movie at any time in the Monitor panel. To preview a movie, Adobe Premiere Elements must first prepare the clips on all the tracks for viewing, applying effects, motion, opacity, and volume settings. Video quality and frame rate are dynamically adjusted in order to preview the movie in real time. Movies that use only cuts between clips generally preview at normal quality and frame rate. Complex movies (with effects and layered video and audio), may need to be rendered before you can preview them.

Using the controls in the Monitor panel, you can resize the video pane, jump to various frames, or play the clip fullscreen.

When using the Sceneline, you can also zoom in and out of the mini-timeline that appears in the Monitor panel to expand or contract its increments. Zooming in on the mini-timeline helps you see changes happening over small expanses of time, even over the duration of a single frame. Zooming out helps you see changes happening over longer spans.

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Monitor panel

A.

Play Full Screen

B.

Mini-timeline

C.

Clip duration

D.

Current Time

E.

Playback controls

F.

Split Clip

G.

Add Text

H.

Freeze Frame

You can preview a movie or clip full-screen, to get an idea of how it would appear on a television screen. Also, this makes it easier to share your work with others in the room.