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Q: Change display order between second and third display

I have a MacBook Pro Retina 15" (2012) with 2 external displays (Dell 27 and Samsung 24). I use the Dell as main display. My problem is with FCPX. I want to use my Samsung 24 as Second Display to see my video material in it with the option "Show events in second display", but OSX set the macbook display as second and the samsung as third. So, I only can see the events in the macbook and the timeline in the Dell. (Unless I close the Macbook. losing one display. I'd rather keep the 3 to use one of them (macbook) with a Finder window).

 

Anyone can help me with this or is impossible to change teh order between the macbook display and the Samsung 24?

 

OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 / FCP X 10.1.4

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 26, 2015 10:19 AM

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  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Mar 26, 2015 11:06 AM in response to xbeiro
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    Mar 26, 2015 11:06 AM in response to xbeiro

    Some time ago, I have found the answer to this problem.

    It should be easy to do from inside FCP X, but unfortunately it requires a little trick in System Preferences...

     

    Here is the recipe:

     

    1) Put FCP X, in single display mode, in the display you want to use as your main display.

    2) Open System Preferences->Displays, click on "Arrangement" (I think that is what is called, I don't currently have two displays connected so I can't check),

    3) Drag the visual representation of the Menu Bar to the display that you want to use as "second" display in FCP X.

    4) Go back to FCP X and choose to put the viewers on second display.

  • by xbeiro,

    xbeiro xbeiro Mar 26, 2015 12:33 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Mar 26, 2015 12:33 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Thanks, but dind't work :__(

     

    I want the Dell as main display (Timeline and viewers), Samsung as second (Events) and macbook as third (desktop/finder/...). Then I did what you say:

     

    1) Open FCPX in Dell27 as single display

     

    2) Go to System Preferences > Displays and move the white bar from Dell to Samsung. Then FCPX moved to the Samsung, leaving the Dell empty.

     

    3) Back in FCPX choose "Viewers on Second Display" and what happen is that the viewers go to the macbook display. So, viewers in the macbook, events in the samsung. Dell empty, everything upside down xD

     

    For some reason OSX always set the macbook display as second and can't find how to change it :/

     

    Thanks for helping me anyway

  • by Luis Sequeira1,Solvedanswer

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Mar 26, 2015 12:46 PM in response to xbeiro
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    Mar 26, 2015 12:46 PM in response to xbeiro

    2) Go to System Preferences > Displays and move the white bar from Dell to Samsung. Then FCPX moved to the Samsung, leaving the Dell empty.

     

     

    Then  appears to me that you need only add an intermediate step to make this work...

     

    2b) Move the FCP X window back to the Dell :-)

     

     

    Note: I don't have three monitors, but I did try it once and it worked. Of course, when you do "Show Events on second display" (which it seems you want, not viewers) have to have the main FCP X window in the right place - otherwise it is obvious that it won't work - when you do this, the timeline stays on whichever display it was!

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Mar 26, 2015 12:52 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Mar 26, 2015 12:52 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Another way to put this: in my original instructions, do step 1 after steps 2 and 3:

     

    (Start with FCP in single window mode, in whichever display, it does not matter)

     

    2) 1) Open System Preferences->Displays, click on "Arrangement"

    3) 2) Drag the visual representation of the Menu Bar to the display that you want to use as "second" display in FCP X.

    1) Move FCP X's single window to the display you want to use as your main display.

    4) In FCP X, choose to put the viewers events on second display.

  • by xbeiro,

    xbeiro xbeiro Mar 26, 2015 12:52 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Mar 26, 2015 12:52 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Thanks a lot!

     

    Yeah! This way I can have FCPX how i want. The only inconvinient is that the "main window" is the samsung, but  I can deal with it

     

    Thansk again

  • by BioRich,

    BioRich BioRich Dec 28, 2015 12:46 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Dec 28, 2015 12:46 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    Hi there.  I have 4 monitors.  Your solution didn't work for me.  Tried twice.

     

    Second time around, the events are in a window behind the main window. 

     

    Any other ideas?

     

    Cheers

  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Dec 29, 2015 2:55 AM in response to BioRich
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    Dec 29, 2015 2:55 AM in response to BioRich

    I am sorry, for the moment I have no other tricks up my sleeve...

     

    I don't have a setup with 4 monitors to try this (well, not unless I carry two of them to another floor, which I can't right now), but I would expect it to work as it does with three. It is regrettable that we don't have a finer control over which display goes with what. I am going to give feedback on this, and I suggest that you and other people with multiple monitors do the same.

     

    Final Cut Pro->Provide Final Cut Pro Feedback...

     

    It could be as simple as Show Events on <name of display>

  • by BioRich,

    BioRich BioRich Dec 29, 2015 3:17 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1
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    Dec 29, 2015 3:17 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

    OK, thanks for the notes.  You would think that with all the push on Thunderbolt that they would allow this to be addressed. 

     

    Cheers

  • by reaganj,

    reaganj reaganj Feb 5, 2016 5:07 PM in response to xbeiro
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    Feb 5, 2016 5:07 PM in response to xbeiro

    I finally figured this one out. 

     

    This actually seems to be related to which thunderbolt port each of the displays are plugged into.  Even though I don't recall the ports being physically numbered on the back of my Mac Pro, they seem to have a priority order to them.

     

    My situation was that I have a main apple 30" display and two smaller displays, but when choosing in FCPX to put the viewer on the "second display", the viewer would show up on the right display, when I really wanted it to on the display to my left.  I suppose I could have physically swapped the displays, but instead, on a hunch, I left the main display connected, but unplugged the other two displays from their thunderbolt ports and swapped which port they were in, then went back to FCP X and this time, when I set the viewer to second display, sure enough... voila! It was now just how I wanted it.

     

    By the way, I did wonder if the correction might have actually been due to the sequence that I plugged the displays in, but I tried unplugging them again and plugging them back in the same ports but in the opposite sequence, and that didn't change anything, so it does appear to just be the physical port order that they are in that matters here.

     

    Anyway, hope that helps!

     

    - Reagan

  • by BioRich,

    BioRich BioRich Feb 5, 2016 5:53 PM in response to reaganj
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    Feb 5, 2016 5:53 PM in response to reaganj

    I'm on a Mac Pro 2008 so I'll move around some ports.  That might be the solution. 

     

    Cheers

  • by BioRich,

    BioRich BioRich Feb 7, 2016 1:56 PM in response to reaganj
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    Feb 7, 2016 1:56 PM in response to reaganj

    Just switched DVI ports and that did the trick.  Seems of my 2 video cards, both items have to be on the same card.  It's the faster card of the two. 

     

    Nicely done.  Port preference. 

     

    Cheers