Dual Monitors

VideoArizona wrote on 1/4/2003, 12:51 PM
I just re-configured Vegas for dual screen. Problem seems to be getting all the parts of the screen below the timeline over to the second monitor. I can drag each window over, but that gets to be a pain and always leaves some tab windows still under the timline.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to grab the entire bottom section and move it in its entirety to the second monitor.

Ideas?

Thanks!

David

Comments

BillyBoy wrote on 1/4/2003, 2:38 PM
The problem is once you start to drag the window you undock it making a freely floating window. I tried dula monitors for about an hour. That was it. All the constant head movement made me get motion sickness.

Have you tried applying FX filters viewing through a external monitor hooked up through a firewire card/camera or black box? That's the preferring method for making any color/level correction.
VideoArizona wrote on 1/4/2003, 2:55 PM
Billyboy responded:

<Have you tried applying FX filters viewing through a external monitor hooked up <through a firewire card/camera or black box? That's the preferring method for <making any color/level correction.>

Yes, that's how I check all my FX and filters...through the external monitor.

I have two edit suites in my office, both interconnected. Both are using dual monitors. I like it. When you have over 50 reels of footage, you need the second monitor just to keep track of all the clips in the reels.

I realize the small windows become un-docked when I move them...I was hoping that VV3 allowed "true" dual monitor useage. So far, I haven't figured out how. That's the problem!

Thanks for the thoughts....

David
Tyler.Durden wrote on 1/4/2003, 6:01 PM
Hi David,

If yer inclined to be unconventional, you might see if you can set the second monitor to be "virtually" below the first; then you can have timeline in the first monitor, the media management, mixer & others in the second monitor.

The only drawback is you would drag elements UP out of the second, into the first... Not for everybody, but I suppose some folks could get used to it. :^)

CHeers, MPH


VideoArizona wrote on 1/5/2003, 10:09 PM
Thanks for the thoughts Marty....

I guess I'll just have to wait and see what the "elves" at SoFo come up with in VV4.

For those of you who have never used dual monitors for editing....its the only way to work. One screen for the timeline and one screen for the rest is an ideal situation (if you can get used to moving back and forth).

I use two 19" monitors side by side and with my other edit system, or Photoshop or even Power CG (great titling program), I use dual monitors. Can you imagine having one large 19" screen for the image and the Photoshop tools all opened on the other screen?

My issue with VV3 is I can un-dock the preview window and the other windows, but its not the same as just dragging the entire lower panel over to the second monitor(media pool, explorer, audio, preview, fx, etc.) Leaving only the timeline on the left monitor. I can see more than 8 tracks doing that!

Sigh...

David