Force GUI to right monitor when using two displays

[Joseph Owens]

Move the monitor?

jPo

“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.

[Joseph Owens]

How about the Apple preferences?

jPo

“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.

[Toby Tomkins]

[Joseph Owens] “Move the monitor?”

amazing.

[Aaron Hayden]

If it were only that easy…

The idea is to switch back and forth between Resolve and Avid Seamlessly, but force Resolve to thh right Gui monitor. If I move the monitor for Resolve, Id have to move it back every time I wanted to use Avid properly. Not an ideal solution.

I wish there was a simple preference in Resolve to set what monitor the gui is displayed on.

running windows 7 btw

[Margus Voll]

Move avid?

Why would you want to use them on the same time in the first place?

Would think performance would be bad running them together as both are designed to run separately.

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Margus

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DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro

[Ola Haldor voll]

That’s not the point here, Margus. He want to work in a certain way – let’s try to help him!
I see his point and reason – I’ve switched between Resolve and FCP dozens of times.

I don’t have two monitors attached here, but here’s an idea.

Back when there was a dedicated set of preferences for Exposé in System Preferences, you could – using a GUI representation – make certain apps always open in certain desktops/monitors. That’s gone now, but let’s try something similar.

If you launch Resolve and Avid, and then press the shortcut for “Mission Control”, you may possible move the Avid/Resolve window wherever you want, either to a virtual desktop or another monitor.

Crossing my fingers this works out as intended, Aaron!

[Margus Voll]

Something iu just figured if avid could save layouts then it is simple.

Just drag all you layout to second monitor and save custom lay out.

I’m not sure if avid can do it but in any other modern software it works really well.

Hope it works out like this.

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Margus

https://iconstudios.eu

DaVinci 9, OSX 10.7.4
MacPro 5.1 2×2,93 24GB
GTX 470 / Quadro 4000
Multibridge 2 Pro

[Robert Houllahan]

In Monitor preferences on the Mac you can drag the top menu bar to any monitor you want and that will become the primary monitor. You could open preferences quickly from the menu bar before running either app and put the menu bar on the screen you want as primary to make Resolve layout the way you want.

-Rob-

Robert Houllahan
Director / Colorist
Cinelab Inc.
http://www.cinelab.com

MAHC-PRO 6-Core 3X GTX285 20Tb SAS Wave Panel Panny 11UK SDI Plasma. Light-Space CMS + Hubble

[Aaron Hayden]

Ok, finally figured out how to do it. Not sure if this will work on a mac as I’m running windows 7.

With both programs closed and the left monitor set as primary, open Resolve.

Disable the left monitor, this will switch Resolve to the right monitor.

Re able left monitor, wait for it to refresh and Resolve will still be on the right monitor!

Now set left monitor back to primary

Launch Avid.

Now and I can Alt Tab between both programs to my hearts content and keep Resolve on the right monitor. Running both applications simultaneously works better than expected. I even outputted a HD sequence in Symphony to tape, then switch back to Resolve and continued coloring without the tape output crashing. Avid complains every time you start it the wrong Nvidia driver is installed(It wants version 259.77) and will disable GPU enabled fx. This is probably why Resolve doesn’t see too much of a hit.

Aaron Hayden
Colorist
Gurney Production

System info:
Davinci Resolve Panel
Flanders LM2461w
Tektronix wfm 7020
SuperMicro 7046gt-trf
2 x Xeon X5690 3.47 GHZ
24 gigs of ram
1 quadro 4000 gui
3 gtx 580 for gpu
LSI MegaRaid SAS 9285cv-8e, 20 TB raid 5
Avid Nitris DX box
SDI Decklink

[Allen Watts]

Rob’s solution was the one that worked when using a Mac laptop. Thanks for posting, I had tried it with Davinci running, but hadn’t tried quitting Davinci and restarting with the large monitor as the primary. That worked. I switch between Premiere and Davinci quite a bit, especially because I haven’t yet figured out a smooth workflow to round-trip projects.

Don’t know if they are watching these (and I’m not one to complain about free, awesome software) but I’d love the ability to arrange across multiple monitors. I’m not a pro colorist, I use the lite version of the software, so I’m not exactly their target audience. I like Davinci, and it runs quite well on the retina Macbook pro.

I have noticed that about half the time it won’t start properly. After login Davinci abruptly quits. A restart usually fixes the problem. Any advice on this and a round-trip workflow from Premiere would be appreciated. (I’ve tried exporting FCP XML, and the timing seems to be inconsistent)