Is it possible to move the Video Preview window to my second monitor?

ernie-tamminga wrote on 2/3/2024, 3:19 PM

UPDATE: I tried various things at random, and finally got it to be moveable. I don't know exactly what I did, but the VP window is now on my second monitor where I want it.

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I know this used to be possible, because it's the way I worked in earlier versions of Vegas Pro. I'm now on VP20 on Windows 11 - also on a new computer. My Preview window is taking up lots of real estate on my primary monitor, and I can't find any way to move it to my second monitor. I know I can use the second monitor as "external device", but then the preview takes up the entire screen of the second monitor, and I can't access anything else I keep on that monitor.
(Another forum said click/hold the window name and then drag it... but that doesn't work. Maybe it did in earlier VP versions?)

I hope I'm missing something obvious, but I can't figure out what that might be.

Comments

rraud wrote on 2/3/2024, 3:58 PM

A few times, I wanted to have Vegas primary preview screen (with the overlays and such) on the secondary monitor screen, so I just dragged the preview window over.

fr0sty wrote on 2/3/2024, 5:36 PM

You can also press the full screen preview button above the preview monitor to go full screen on your second monitor.

3POINT wrote on 2/4/2024, 2:11 AM

@ernie-tamminga as @rraud described you can drag the primary preview screen to your second monitor (and save that setting as window layout). You still can switch between primary preview and full screen preview on your second monitor.

harry-worth wrote on 2/4/2024, 2:41 AM

Little bit more info.

ernie-tamminga wrote on 2/4/2024, 10:22 AM

Thanks for the comments. (I think) I finally figured out that I have to click a little icon next to the window-name, in order to unlock the window and make it moveable. I hadn’t found any reference to that, in the documentation or in online tutorial things.

harry-worth wrote on 2/4/2024, 11:18 AM

Glad you got it sorted....

Jack S wrote on 2/5/2024, 9:04 AM

@ernie-tamminga I hadn’t found any reference to that, in the documentation or in online tutorial things.

Click Help/Contents and Index. When the help page opens up in your web browser, type Tabbed Windows in the search field. In the list of search results, select 'Window Docking Area and Floating Window Docks'. This gives you all the information you need for docking and, as I show below, undocking windows.

The help system is a valuable source of information, but only if you use it.