Sizing windows / screen in MC 5.5.2...advice

petermullett

petermullett

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Hello, I'm thinking about moving from FCP7 to Avid MC 5.5.2 and have just received the disks and loaded the programme onto my 27" iMac to try to get conversant with the application. It's loaded, registered and running, but....
Straight I away got stuck on trying to size the viewer and canvas windows, ( sorry about the FCP terminology! ). I cannot get the windows to fully fit the 27" screen. The timeline expands top to bottom and side to side, but the windows seem to have a maximum sizing.....Is that so?
I am trying to set MC5 up so I can have my bins on a second 24" Apple Display leaving the 27" screen solely for edit windows and timeline....hopefully this can be done....????
 
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The monitors are locked to a certain maximum size - I don't know what it is, but as you've seen it stops sizing up at a certain point. If you want it bigger, lower the resolution of your monitor (not ideal). Otherwise, make it as big as you can and if you want to view it full screen use the Full Screen Playback option. I recommend Raw Pixel settings so you aren't scaling the pixels to fit the higher resolution of the iMac.
 
Thanks Butcher, noted.......Now onwards with trying to understand the more important stuff. like how to use Avid again after all those FCP years away from it.
Cheers, Peter
 
Butcher said:
The monitors are locked to a certain maximum size - I don't know what it is, but as you've seen it stops sizing up at a certain point. If you want it bigger, lower the resolution of your monitor (not ideal). Otherwise, make it as big as you can and if you want to view it full screen use the Full Screen Playback option. I recommend Raw Pixel settings so you aren't scaling the pixels to fit the higher resolution of the iMac.
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Avid will only let you scale the composer window to the width of the smallest screen attached. So if you're using one 2560x1440 monitor and one 1280x800 monitor (for some horrible reason), then you can only have a composer window 1280 pixels in width. It's an odd little limitation.

This may not have been the sole issue in your case, but that's one limitation I thought I'd point out.
 
Didn't know that! Thanks. I've always worked on dual monitors set to the same resolution - anything else drives me crazy.
 
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