What is your work computer / home computer?

[Tom Sefton]

Work – a bunch of 2013 Mac Pros – d700s and max ram. iMac 27. 2 HP X series PCs, Mac mini, 4 3 g tech studio xl raids, g tech portable raid

Home – MacBook Pro retina, MacBook Air

Love those new Mac pros!

Co-owner at Pollen Studio
http://www.pollenstudio.co.uk

[Craig Alan]

So the ASUS External Monitor holds the viewer and no viewer is on the lap top? Does this require a third party driver? This does allow for more vertical space for the timeline which I really like having. Are you using any breakout box cause I see you have speakers too. What about storage, no raid/media drive?

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.

[Erik Lindahl]

Work:
– nMP 2013 8-core / D700 / 64 GB / 1TB, external 8-big 24 TB RAID-5 + 1TB SSD – both Thunderbolt, Ultra Studio 4K, 2×27″ EIZO CG + 1×24″ SONY OLED

Home:
– iMac 27″ 2012 i7 / GTX 680MX / 32 GB / 1 TB Fusion Drive, external USB3 256 GB SSD.

[Bill Davis]

[Craig Alan] “So the ASUS External Monitor holds the viewer and no viewer is on the lap top? Does this require a third party driver? This does allow for more vertical space for the timeline which I really like having. Are you using any breakout box cause I see you have speakers too. What about storage, no raid/media drive?”

The X interface is switchable so that you can either have your Event window there OR your Monitor window.

That means if you set it to Event you get LOTS of room for visual clip icons or a very large spreadsheet display.

If you switch it into main screen monitor mode, all the screens you normally have in the viewer get switched to the second screen. That means full monitor if you’re in that mode, monitor and viewer if you choose that mode, or monitor, scopes and viewer if you select that mode. It’s not “perfectly flexible” but it’s plenty for the way I like to edit, which is typically with the second monitor disconnected unless I’m working with a client or two over my shoulder or engaged in something where the extra real estate is useful like logging where a huge event browser can be really nice.

Like my prior editing setups where the rig stayed largely fixed – I find I change the second display quite a bit depending on whether I’m working the front end Browser stuff or the back end Program stuff.

YMMV. Just how I do it.

Creator of XinTwo – https://www.xintwo.com
The shortest path to FCP X mastery.