[Brevig Madison]

I know this post is from a couple of months ago, but I just found it because of my search. What I have been trying to accomplish all day is to use airplay as a video monitor. I was a little bit disappointed that the airplay built in to Mountain Lion does not support the ability to use the appleTV output as a second monitor, although considering it is called “AirPlay Mirroring” I guess I dont have the right to be. However, in my searching I found AirParrot which had pretty Good reviews so I was willing to shell out the $10 for the experiment. AirParrot works just as seamlessly for mirroring as the built in AirPlay ability, but it also supports the option of extending your desktop, using the HDTV connected to the AppleTV as a true dual display setup. However, I have been very disappointed in FCPX ability to utilize the second display. While it does offer the ability to “Show Viewer on second display,” What I am really looking for is for the video on the second display to be completely unobstructed full screen playback while I am looking at the timeline on my iMac. The frustrating part is that when I choose “Full Screen Playback” or hit Shift-Cmd-F, the video plays full screen on my TV, but the screen on my iMac goes black!

This was the source of quite a bit of frustration today, and I still have not been able to achieve my desired result in FCPX. I did find a work around to be able to accomplish what I am looking for using FCP 7, but not FCPX. Any thoughts on this? I have never tried to hard wire a dual display setup for FCPX, so I am not sure if this is what anyone would get with a dual display setup or if this just has to do with my current setup using AirParrot and AirPlay to create the second display. Any thoughts or potential workarounds for achieving my desired results? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Brevig Madison