The Reference Monitor acts like a secondary
Program Monitor. You can use a Reference Monitor to compare different
frames of a sequence side by side, or to view the same frame of
a sequence using different viewing modes.
You can cue the
frame of a sequence displayed in the Reference Monitor independently
from the Program Monitor. This way, you can cue each view to a different
frame for comparison—to use the color matching filter, for example.
Alternatively,
you can gang the Reference Monitor and Program Monitor together,
so that they both show the same frame of a sequence and move in tandem.
This is especially useful for color-correcting tasks. By setting
the Reference Monitor’s viewing mode to a waveform monitor or vectorscope,
you can make adjustments to the color corrector or any other video
filter more effectively.
You
can specify the Reference Monitor’s quality setting, magnification,
and viewing mode just as you would in the Program Monitor. Its time
ruler and viewing area bar also work the same. But because it’s
for your reference and not for editing per se, the Reference Monitor
contains controls for cueing to frames, not for playback or editing.
When you gang the Reference Monitor and Program Monitor together,
you can use the Program Monitor’s playback controls. You may open
only one Reference Monitor.
In the Window menu, choose Reference
Monitor. The Reference Monitor opens in a separate panel. If you
want, you can drag the Reference Monitor’s tab into a drop zone
next to the Source Monitor.
.
in either
the Reference Monitor, the Program Monitor, or the Timeline will
move the current-time indicators in the other two to the same frame.
