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Composer screen unwanted zooming in
Hi All.
I am having an annoying issue with my composer screens. when my Avid is idle, the clip zooms in like 50%, but when I play the clip, it is normal. Obviously this isn’t affecting my edits, but it is very annoying when I am trying to look through clips.
I couldn’t find any post about this issue.
Does anyone know how to fix it?
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16 Replies
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I’ve never had this issue in all my years. Are you in AVID FX? It could be zoomed in there. On a regular timeline, that is a strange issue indeed.
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IM using Avid 8.4
Its not a question of zooming in and out. It nly happens when Avid is Idle.
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This has come up with another user on the Avid Editors of Facebook, but have yet to see a response. I know that the issues has been taken back to Avid support and engineering. If I see something pop up on the topic, I will post back here.
Michael
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Thank you.
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by “idle” do you mean just when it’s not playing? If so, when paused try hitting CTRL/COMMAND + K or L to get it back to normal
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Yes, if you’ve accidentally hit Cmd L when the player window is active, then it would have that effect. As William says, hit Cmd K to zoom out.
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I’ve been having the same issue after switching from 2010 Power Macs to 27″ iMac 5K.
The problem seems to be that I moved the main monitor menu bar in System Pref /Display to the 24″ second monitor.
When I moved the menu bar back to the iMac screen the zooming problem disappeared. You’ll have to quit Media Composer to get this change to register.
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Hi Chris.
Thanks for the input. I tried that and it dint solve anything.
I am working from an iMac as well. What seems to solve the problem is moving my composer window to my secondary screen… But I still want to make it work on both screens.🙁
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It worked for me, but then the next day it was back.
Then I thought it might be my user settings that I brought over from the Mac Pro. So I switched to a new user setting and it seemed to go away. Then I switched back to my old settings and it was still gone. Go figure.
But this morning the problem had returned again!!
This time I managed to get it to go away by making sure that the source / recored composer window didn’t touch anything else on the desktop. Including the menu bar. It’s been fine since I did that.
It reminded me of an old quirk in the early versions of Media Composer Express. Where if anything was touching the composer window it wouldn’t playback video in it.
If all else fails it does work in the second monitor. But I’ll see what happens when a new 27″ 2K monitor replaces the old 24″ second display.
Fingers crossed it doesn’t return!
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Problem returned again this morning. I think it might be the settings that I’ve brought forward.
But I seem to have a way to make it go away.
I move the composer window to my second monitor, and switch user settings to a new setting. Then move the composer window back to the iMac screen. Mark an IN. See if it’s gone. It has been. Then switch my settings back to my usual settings and it’s gone.
Hope this hocus-pocus works.
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