Dual Monitors for Avenue

[VJGeorge]

Hello All,

I currently VJ on a giant LED video wall. I would like to use 2 monitors to with Resolume. 1 Monitor (Built into my Macbook Pro) would have the clips

, the 2nd monitor (Cheap HD TV) would have the 3 panels

.

It's just too small to view on a 15" MBP.

How can I do this? Seems like they are not floating pallets like Photoshop or FCP.

Thanks

[Oaktown]

That won't work unless you are willing to use a display processor and 2 external monitors.

As far as I know, the only way you can split Resolume in 2 screens using your laptop screen is if you use the main window on one screen and the advanced output window on the other.

If you need to see more layers, one thing you can do is to run your external monitor in portrait mode and use

[Zoltán]

you could try setting your display resolution to the native retina resolution.
this would resize resolume so you could see more layers at once, but they would be smaller.
I'm not sure you can do this with osx alone, look for switchResX on google, it can set your resolution.

[drazkers]

Only way i've done this is with a datapath X4, but thats the least costly method out of all of them.

[Joris]

Just had a conversation about this the other day. It's a shame that OSX prevents single window apps from spanning two monitors. Otherwise this would just be a case of placing the monitors underneath each other in OSX's Displays manager and then dragging the Resolume application window down to cover both screens.

Now we'd have to specifically write support for separate "undocakable" application windows, which is a whole other can of worms in itself.

[Oaktown]

Just had a conversation about this the other day. It's a shame that OSX prevents single window apps from spanning two monitors.

From this old post of mine:

Sometimes I use two 1080p monitors side by side with a Zotax DisplayPort to Dual HDMI Adapter (ZT-MDP2HD) so that I can get more clips/columns on my UI.

That works on a OSX as well but of course that wouldn't work with the native display of a laptop!

Unfortunately, the Zotac adapter has been discontinued but maybe there is something similar on the market that could be used to the same effect.

[Joris]

I forget, does the Zotac create the dual output by extending a single EDID or creating separate EDID entries?

[Oaktown]

Single EDID split in 2 halves which is why it let you span two monitors.