Software

Program monitor

An editing viewer that displays the current output of the active sequence or timeline.

Also known as: record monitor, canvas

Reviewed September 3, 2026

In practice

It reflects edits, composites, scaling, and playback settings, but color-critical or broadcast evaluation requires an appropriately managed external monitoring path.

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Sources

Premiere Pro editing reference — Adobe
ACES Documentation Glossary — Academy Color Encoding System