Settings reference

Every PreviewMonitor setting in one place — label, control, options, default, what it changes, and whether it needs Pro.

Every user-facing setting in PreviewMonitor, on both halves of the product. Labels are copied character-for-character from the app and the plugin's Setup window.

There are five surfaces:

Surface	Where	What lives there
Settings panel	gear button in the live view's HUD	Encoding, Audio, HUD and Developer Tools cards, plus Reset to Defaults
Resolution Limit chip	the round chip in the same HUD button row	the nine-rung resolution ladder
Layout picker	layout button in the same HUD button row	overlay choice, safe-zone color and opacity
Clip monitor panel	gear button inside Preview from Photos or Files	a three-control subset of the settings panel
Setup window	the host, from Premiere Pro's Transmit settings	device name, discoverability, encoder toggle, trusted phones

The HUD button row runs left to right: audio, layout, Resolution Limit chip, gear. All four settings surfaces on the phone require an active stream, except the clip monitor's, which requires an imported clip.

PreviewMonitor settings panel open over a live stream, showing the Encoding, Audio, HUD and Developer Tools cards and the Reset to Defaults button

The whole settings panel in one scroll: four cards, then the red Reset to Defaults button. Resolution Limit is deliberately not here — it lives on the HUD chip.

Settings panel — ENCODING

Label	Control	Options	Default	What it changes
Encoder	dropdown	supplied by the host — on Windows some subset of NVIDIA NVENC, Intel Quick Sync, AMD AMF, Software (CPU); on macOS only VideoToolbox	the host's first-priority engine, marked Recommended in the open list	Which encoder does the work. Changing it rebuilds the plugin's encoder.
Codec	dropdown	H.265, H.264	H.265	The video codec on the wire.
GOP Mode	dropdown	All-Intra, Short, Long (Long is marked Recommended)	Long	Keyframe spacing: All-Intra makes every frame an IDR, Short uses a 5-frame GOP, Long uses a 600-frame GOP.

Below the three rows the card prints a live summary in the form Stream: 1280×720 @ 25 fps — the dimensions and frame rate the plugin is actually encoding, not what you requested.

The engine list arrives from the plugin about 100 ms after streaming starts. Until then the Encoder row shows a dash.

None of these three is Pro-gated. Bit rate is not a setting: the encoder runs in constant-quality mode and spends whatever bits the picture needs at your chosen rung.

Settings panel — AUDIO

Label	Control	Options	Default	What it changes
Sync	segmented	Low Latency, Lip Sync	Low Latency	Playback buffering on the phone only. Lip Sync buffers more so audio lines up with the decode-delayed picture; Low Latency keeps audio ahead. The plugin sends the same PCM either way.

Settings panel — HUD

Label	Control	Options	Default	What it changes
Controls	segmented	Stay on, Auto-hide	Stay on	Whether the HUD fades on a timer. A tap on the picture toggles the chrome in both modes.
Hide after	slider	2–15 s, whole seconds	4 s	The fade delay. The row is only present while Controls is Auto-hide.
Max zoom	slider with stops	2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30×	10× on Pro, 4× on free	The pinch-zoom ceiling in both the live view and the clip monitor.

Max zoom is Pro-gated above 4×. On the free tier the whole scale is drawn but the stops above 4× are dimmed, and tapping them opens the upgrade sheet. See Free vs Pro.

Settings panel — DEVELOPER TOOLS

Label	Control	Options	Default	What it changes
Show stats	toggle	on / off	off	Draws the metrics strip — bit rate, frame rate, round-trip time — over the picture. Turning it on closes the settings panel so you can see the result.

Despite the card name, Show stats is a normal user feature and is not gated. See Stats HUD for what each number means.

Resolution Limit

Resolution Limit is not in the settings panel. It is the round chip in the HUD button row, which always shows the current rung — Src for Source, otherwise the rung's own label.

The value is a cap on the short side of the encoded picture. The plugin downscales to fit it and preserves aspect, so a 16:9 sequence at 720p encodes at 1280×720 and a 9:16 vertical sequence at the same rung encodes at 720×1280.

Rung	Short-side cap	Free tier
Source	no cap — encodes at the sequence's own resolution	Locked
2160p	2160 px	Locked
1440p	1440 px	Locked
1080p	1080 px	Locked
720p	720 px	Locked
540p	540 px	Locked
480p	480 px	Locked
360p	360 px	Available
240p	240 px	Available

The default is 720p, marked Recommended in the open menu. On the free tier the default folds down to 360p.

Every rung above 360p, including Source, needs Pro. Locked rungs show a lock in the menu and open the upgrade sheet instead of selecting, and the chip itself carries a lock badge. The cap is enforced by the plugin as well as the app — see Free vs Pro.

The menu is anchored to the chip; 720p carries a "Recommended" subtitle and each locked rung carries a lock.

Layout picker

Opened from the layout button. The card is headed LAYOUT. Standard and Full Screen are plain rows; Universal Safe Zone and each platform are collapsible sections, and only one section is open at a time.

Row	Type	What it draws	Free tier
Standard	plain row	no overlay; picture fits the screen with aspect preserved	Available
Full Screen	plain row	picture scaled to cover the screen, overflow cropped, no chrome	Available
Universal Safe Zone	section	a single tinted safe-zone frame that clears every platform's UI	Available
Shorts → LTR (default), RTL, Both	section	YouTube Shorts action rail	Available
TikTok → LTR (default), RTL, Both	section	TikTok action rail	Pro
Reels → LTR (default), RTL, Both	section	Instagram Reels action rail	Pro

The default is Standard.

LTR puts the action rail on the right (the layout a left-to-right audience sees), RTL mirrors it, Both draws both rails at once so you can check clearance for either.

All six TikTok and Reels variants need Pro. Their rows show a lock and open the upgrade sheet.

Universal Safe Zone controls

Expanding Universal Safe Zone reveals two more controls.

Label	Control	Options	Default	Free tier
Opacity	slider	0–100%, with a magnetic detent at 30%	30%	Locked
(color swatches)	five circular swatches	red, black, white, green, blue	red	Locked to red

Both are Pro. On the free tier the opacity slider stays visible and readable but does not move, and the four non-red swatches carry a lock. Tapping either opens the upgrade sheet.

Caption editor

When the selected layout draws a caption, an Edit Profile & Caption button appears at the bottom of the picker. It edits the profile name and caption text for that layout only. Not gated.

Clip monitor panel

Preview from Photos or Files gets its own gear, but a much smaller panel — headed SETTINGS — with three rows:

Label	Same setting as
Controls	the live view's Controls
Hide after	the live view's Hide after
Max zoom	the live view's Max zoom

These are not separate copies. They read and write the same stored values as the live settings panel, so a preference set in one holds in the other. There is no Encoding card and no Audio card — there is no encoder and no host in this mode. The layout picker is available and behaves identically.

Host-side Setup window

Reached from Premiere Pro's Transmit settings. See Setup window for the full tour.

Control	Platform	Type	Default	What it changes
Name	both	text field	the computer's host name	The display name in the phone's device list and in the mDNS record. On macOS it is restricted to letters and numbers, with the placeholder Letters and numbers only; Windows applies no validation.
Discoverable on network	both	toggle	on	Whether the plugin advertises itself over mDNS. With it off, the phone can still connect by QR code or typed IP.
Use NVIDIA / Intel HW HEVC encoder	Windows only	toggle	off	Whether the plugin may use asynchronous Media Foundation transforms. NVIDIA and Intel expose hardware HEVC only as an async transform, so with this off, hardware HEVC is unavailable.
Forget	both	button per paired phone	—	Removes one iPhone from the trusted list. It has to pair again.
Advanced info	both	disclosure	collapsed	Reveals the LIVE STREAM and NETWORK diagnostic cards.
Restart networking	macOS only	button	—	Tears down and rebuilds the transport. Drops the connected iPhone.

On Windows, Discoverable on network is written to disk immediately but does not apply to the running transport — it takes effect the next time Premiere Pro starts. macOS applies it live. See Known limitations.

Leaving Use NVIDIA / Intel HW HEVC encoder off and then asking for a 4K HEVC stream produces a silent black screen. The exact conditions and the workaround are in Known limitations.

Where settings are stored

Almost everything is stored globally on the phone and applies to every host you connect to. There is exactly one exception.

Setting	Scope
Encoder	Per paired host. Stored in a dictionary keyed by the host's identity, and refreshed when you switch hosts, so the picker always shows the engine you chose for that machine. A Mac's `VideoToolbox` is never pushed at a Windows host.
Everything else	Global — one value shared across every paired host.

Name, Discoverable on network and Use NVIDIA / Intel HW HEVC encoder live on the host, in the plugin's own config file, not on the phone. See Logs and diagnostics for the paths.

Reset to Defaults

The red button at the bottom of the settings panel. It applies immediately, with no confirmation, and is scoped globally rather than to the host you happen to be connected to.

It restores:

Setting	Restored to
Resolution Limit	720p on Pro, 360p on free
GOP Mode	Long
Codec	H.265
Encoder	cleared for every paired host, then re-resolved to each host's recommended engine
Sync	Low Latency
Controls	Stay on
Hide after	4 s
Max zoom	10× on Pro, 4× on free
Show stats	off
Layout	Standard
Audio	unmuted on Pro, muted on free

It does not touch your paired hosts, the Universal Safe Zone color or opacity, or anything on the host side. After restoring, the app pushes one consolidated settings snapshot to the plugin rather than a burst of individual changes.

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