• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  noob monitor setup question

  Posted by Baba Goof on January 5, 2007 at 7:31 pm

  i’m setting up a new system with two graphics cards and four monitors.
  the intent is to use three across the bottom, left for resources (browser,
  etc.), center for timeline, right for peripheral (safari, filemaker, etc.).
  the hope is to be able to set our 31″ cinema display above these three as
  a dedicated monitor for the canvas or another form of exclusive viewing
  of the timeline output. still getting other things worked out (like
  networking) but the couple of times i’ve tried to set the top monitor for
  output fcp keeps reverting to one of the lower ones for this type of
  preview (full screen, no windows). just a guess but it seems it might be
  related to where the monitor is plugged in? which card has priority? is
  there some trick to getting the system set up as i’ve described? any tips,
  guidance, or links are apreciated.

  thanks,
  BabaG

  Baba Goof replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Chris Poisson

  January 5, 2007 at 7:47 pm

  BabaG,

  Geez, why so many monitors? Plus, two graphics cards just seems unnecessary. What about an NTSC monitor? That’s what you really need to judge color and adjust properly.

  Take a look at the Matrox MXO which can feed multiple monitors without tieing up a slot.
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  Baba Goof

  January 7, 2007 at 9:54 pm

  thought it was clear:

  monitor 1 = fcp assets, workspace
  monitor 2 = fcp timeline
  monitor 3 = peripheral software (openoffice, safari, filemaker, etc)
  monitor 4 = timeline output

  system is already in place. i just need to be able to get the timeline
  to default to the cinema display rather than one of the others as it
  currently seems to want to do. is fcp capable of defining monitor
  usage in a greater than dual monitor setup?

  thanks,
  BabaG

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