How do I make the Viewer bigger?

"I guess you used this button to close the browser"

Handy 😅. I forgot about that. I did Window > Show In Workspace > Browser. But I like your way better. I also hid the Sidebar. I did know about saving Workspaces, but I'm still trying to find ones I like 😅

I think the missing piece of the puzzle which you can see as the large black rectangle in my OP. I'm pretty sure that's the Event Viewer. It's an animal that I continue to find confusing, even though I read the manual. What gets displayed in the Viewer vs. Event Viewer changes every time I click on something, and it always surprises me.

In any case, I could have sworn I tried to close the Event Viewer, but the option was grayed out a few minutes back. I thought it was not possible in my context, possibly because I was using Multicam. But I tried it now (Ctrl-Cmd-3), and it went away, ultimately solving my problem (along with conceding to hide the Browser).

Anyway, your pointers helped! Thanks!!!

Luis Sequeira1 wrote:

In your last image, you have TWO panels: the Event Viewer on the left, and the Viewer on the right.

In each of them, you have turned on the Angle Viewer.

Note the titles at the top:

"TEST Multicam Clip" - this is the clip selected in the browser. This indicates that this is the Event Viewer: it shows what is selected in the browser.

"DK Test Project" - this is the project that is open in the timeline. This indicates this is the main Viewer.

I'd follow the suggestion to adjust the Workspaces as you like them, and save them.

Thanks, this was helpful and I'm slowly catching on. I did notice that if you hide the Browser it hides the Event Viewer with it, which makes sense since you can't select an event clip without the browser.

So I've learned more, but now I'm more confused with new questions. But let me go back and reread these sections in the manual again in light of this new knowledge before I ask more questions :-)

Okay, thanks again to you and everyone for the pointers. This may appear to have gone a bit off topic; but not really, because the reason I couldn't figure out how to manage my space is because I didn't understand what all the spaces were.

I did some experimenting and learned a lot. I found a few reasons this seems complex: 1) what appears in these various "viewers" is highly context dependent; 2) the contexts get substantially more complex when using Multicam, which I am using; 3) there appears to be at least one or more bugs I've run into.

So I went through to diagram all the possible contexts, at least for Multicam, and laid out the 4 main "viewers" (in pink) in the left-to-right layout that they follow on the screen. This is what I came up with.

Understanding the difference in viewing angles -- and the corresponding monitoring settings -- between the Browser and the Timeline is one key area I'm glad I get now.

If I got anything wrong here, let me know!

"I prefer Command-Control-1 to show or hide the browser and sidebar :-)"

Handy! I will note this!

"The black rectangle is NOT the Event Viewer, it is the 360º part of the main Viewer. "

Interesting. How do you know this? I've never played with 360, and I'm pretty sure I got it to go away with Ctrl-Cmd-3, which is apparently the Event Viewer. But I'm not sure how to go back to how things were to find out.

But I do see your point and so there's yet another pane that can be here. I have to say, this GUI is rather non-intuitive. There's nothing that says "this is the Angle Viewer / Event Viewer / 360"... You only know by removing it or adding it what it actually is.

Eg, here I have 4 panels open to the right of the Browser:

I can tell from the grid and toolbar, based on my limited experience, that the first is the Angle Viewer. And the last one is I guess always the Viewer. The other two I guess I have to infer what they are from the header saying "multicam" vs "project"? Why would/can I View > Show > Angles in the Viewer and also in the Event Viewer?

Sorry, I know it's a bunch of random questions. You don't have to answer. But I guess my takeaway here is that I think between Menubar > Window > Show In Workspace and [pick a panel] > View > Show I can control what's on my screen, so that at least gives me control over the situation even though I don't know what everything is for.

Thank you!!

LocaAlicia wrote:

I did know about saving Workspaces, but I'm still trying to find ones I like

As Tom and Luis say, you can save the screen in any layout you like. You can increase your work efficiency by saving preset layouts that suit your editing purposes.

●Screen layout and preset storage methods [subtitles]

Even in Chinese, this was helpful! Thanks!

I’m so sorry. I’m not sure why I thought it was Chinese. But I did watch the entire video and I did use the subtitles of course and it was very helpful. Thank you!!