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--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jimmy Dutt <bytemonkey@...> wrote:
>
>
> On 18 Apr 2010, at 04:15 EDT, Job ter Burg (L2B) wrote:
>
> > Might be - at least on PC I think - that your source/record monitor
> > HAS to
> > be on the secondary monitor (meaning the one not containing your OSX
> > File/Edit/Etc. Menu or your Windows Start Menu).
>
> And on 18 Apr 2010, at 13:15 EDT, Dennis Shelby wrote:
>
> > It has to do with your arrangement
> > of #1 vs #2 monitors. Try swapping cables at the video card so that
> > they
> > are reversed from what they are now, then set your toolset again.
>
>
> I considered this at one point - recalling, as Dennis noted, the
> horrors when the old Macs would lose their mind and get the monitor
> IDs flipped. One of the first things I checked was how my monitors
> were connected (the left-hand "boot" is #1 and the right hand
> "sidecar" is #2) which is, for me, normal. Everything else I run
> (FCP, Color, Shake etc.) thinks this arrangement is fine and pretty
> much goes with the flow.
>
> MC? Not so much :(
>
> Of course the specific "Bin Monitor" / "Edit Monitor" deal is from the
> days of the Avid's board/hardware needing to drive whatever Mac
> monitor displayed the Avid's primary full-motion video (leaving the
> "Bin" monitor chores to the Mac's built-in display hardware). And
> yeah - before these ATI and NVidia boards started taking on not only
> the display chores but now a whole lot of the rendering maths, I would
> have said there might still be some merit to the old school dedicated
> "Edit" / "Bin" monitor assignment.
>
> But I would have thought that - especially in this "post Meridien" era
> - with both channels of modern video boards being essentially
> identical that no longer would there be a need to have the S/R pane on
> the "Edit" monitor - and in fact both the S/R pane *and* the CC pane
> seems perfectly happy on the "Bin" (boot) monitor... at least until I
> switch to CC mode and then watch everything eventually run back over
> to the "Edit" monitor.
>
> And, of course, there's the fact that this "MCSoft" stuff is otherwise
> quite happy running on a single-monitor laptop / desktop kit :)
>
> I personally think (and I'm hoping Jeremy will jump in here) that it
> might be related to some legacy "Avid-hardware-related" code that's
> imposing this "Bin" / "Edit" deal. It's the only thing I'm coming up
> with right now at least.
>
> And understand that my fight isn't so much with the "Toolset" scheme
> as it is with the "consistent inconsistency" of the thing (which seems
> to increase exponentially when "Workspaces" and "Linked Settings" are
> involved.
>
> So for now I've temporarily given up and will just do my editing stuff
> (because thankfully the ScriptSync window stays put). When it comes
> time to get fancy and color correct and such I'll worry about it again
> at that time.
>
> But if anyone up in Tewks would like, I'll gladly do some screen
> recording so you can play along at home. It's actually quite
> "entertaining." :)
>
> thanks-
> -jimmy
>
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