Windows seem like a mess… how to fix and lock this?

[Shane Ross]

YOu can choose any number of default window arrangements. There’s a menu item for that. And you can always move and resize them yourself, to your liking. Butt them next to each other.

Shane

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[Andrew Mckee]

If you go to Toolset -> Source/Record Editing that will get you most of the way there. Then with a little manual adjustment you can get everything up against each other. When you’re don go to Toolset -> Save Current and it will store it in your user settings.

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[Mike Albertini]

Hi Andrew,

New to MC too and having the same problem…did what you outlined above but when i try to manually adjust the viewer/canvas window to use up all the screen space on the top half of my monitor, nothing happens…the outline goes to the end of the screen but when i release the mouse, the viewer/canvas haven’t moved…Realise there must be a way to do this…please let me know …my monitor is 30inch apple display…btw liked your first fcp to avid tut…

Thanks,

Mike

[Craig Alan]

Hi Mike,

Me too. Cursing Apple every step I get stuck on and happy again when I get unstuck. The last time I gave Avid a shot, I was cursing Avid for being rigid, not Mac like. Now I’m cursing Apple. It’s much better to be upset with something other than the app you are trying to learn.

So, like you, toolset (FCP’s window layout) getting in way. I think MC only lets you resize the composer window (FCP’s viewer/canvas) if it conforms to an aspect ratio of 16:9 or 4:3. You can resize the timeline to fill in nicely. The more you stretch out the composer window the wider it can be. This is true in FC too but with the snapping feature it was easier to configure.

I’ve also learned to take AVID’s advice to have all gear plugged in and powered on before opening MC. I was fooling with a second monitor and not having it powered on before left me with weird default window layouts — the project window display (FCP’s browser) was on top of or behind the timeline and composer window.

I rebooted and set all toolsets back to defaults, but I still do not fill the screen on my cinema display. Would love to have at least the Mac finder window not be peaking through so much. So I went back to custom dragging them about and now I think I’ll just change my finder window to something that complements the 1984 gray color scheme of the AVID UI. I’m thinking light blue.

Unless someone lets us know how to turn AVID workspace into a LION IPAD app that fills the screen.

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