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  • Custom workspace for two monitors

    Posted by Larry Watts on June 30, 2018 at 1:04 pm

    I’m helping a friend move from FCP legacy to FCPX.

    He wants to see the output of the timeline to always be on the 2nd monitor
    He also want to see a view of work done with titles, transformations, effects and
    Retiming, cropping etc on His main monitor above the timeline and to the right of the browser.

    How can I set this up for him?

    Larry

    Oliver Peters replied 7 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Jeff Kirkland

    June 30, 2018 at 8:44 pm

    With FCPX, you get the layout choices they give you and while you can save the current state pf panels as far as opened/closed/resized goes there are no truly customisable workspaces.

    —-
    Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
    Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

  • Brian Seegmiller

    June 30, 2018 at 11:35 pm

    That would be like having two monitors with the same thing since your effects and such would be on the program anyway. Is he talking about having the viewer that will have his media from the browser in one window and the program on the second display?

  • Brian Seegmiller

    June 30, 2018 at 11:43 pm

  • Jeff Kirkland

    June 30, 2018 at 11:48 pm

    Reading it again, is he just wanting to have FCPX on one screen and set his preview to the second monitor via Preferences and the AV Output option?

    —-
    Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer & Cinematographer
    Hobart, Tasmania | Twitter: @jeffkirkland

  • Oliver Peters

    July 1, 2018 at 12:28 am

    Something in here might be helpful

    https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/fcp-x-screen-layouts/

    – Oliver

    Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

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