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Dual Monitor Conflict with Avid
Started looking into Avid and there’s a problem. I have a dual monitor setup (running off a nivida 7800GT) which Avid apprently dislikes; the timeline and composer windows tend to jump around randomly if I try and move or resize them, and eventually they actaully fly off outside of the main Avid window making them impossible to get to. (Resizing the main window doesn’t reveal them.) Switching over to a single monitor solves the problem, but being restricted to one screen is prety confining, not to mention having to redo all my display settings. I’d really like to start learning this program, so if anyone knows of a workaround or fix I’d appreciate it.
(I don’t think this problem’s unique either; there’s another post from a couple years back that mentiones it, but there’s no replies on the thread. Hopefully better luck this time; the version I’m running is Xpress HD 5, but I’ve had the same issue with Express DV and even the free learning edition. Thanks very much anyone.) -
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Try going into your Nvidia settings. Play around with monitor modes. Try single monitor mode. Also what Nvidia driver are you using?
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I’m currently on Forceware 91.31 (which I think means I’m actaully a little behind, will try updating). Clone view (same display image on each monitor) seems to solve the problem, obviously at the cost of one monitor.
I assume a program like Avid is designed with two monitor support in mind, so there must be some workaround. My monitors are running at different resolutions of 1280×1024 and 1680×1050, meaning I’m using Dual View mode rather than the more common Span mode (where the windows desktop is stretched out across both screens); is it possible that’s causing the conflict? (It also doesn’t make any difference if I just keep the main avid window on one screen, sub windows still jump around.)
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Well, you’re running the wrong driver and in the wrong mode, and I remember seeing some posts a while back where people had trouble running their monitors at different resolutions. Scour the readme that comes with Xpress Pro HD 5.x. It will tell you the correct driver to use and how to set it up. It even gives you the driver–it’s in your Avid folder. Do a search for nVidia on your system and it’ll pull it up. Avid is extremely picky about what cards you use and what drivers you use. Follow their instructions for uninstalling your old driver and installing the new one to see if you can get your problem fixed, and set up your display settings per Avid’s instruction. Dual mode/clone isn’t it, but off the top of my head I can’t remember what is correct. It’s all outlined in the readme. Start by looking there.
Mike.
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Avid’s readme discusses drivers for nvidia workstation level Quardo cards, but not the desktop level cards; for those, I think it’s basically luck.
I think I did figure out the issue though, after digging around on some other forums: basically under a dual screen setup, Avid requires whichever monitor you have set as “1” to be your primary monitor. My usual setup has “2”, my larger screen, as the primary; changing primary over to 1 seems to fix the problem and the sub windows stay where they’re placed.
Thanks both for getting back to me so quickly.
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