hey all. anyone using two monitors? two computer ones that is. I’ve just got the new Studio Display XDR and I’m thinking of having two of them and a broadcast. what goes on the second one? the bins? what do people run when they run it like this!
Not sure 100%, but the flame’s UI is not customizable. The second UI monitor is only for the media panel (desktop/Library/Batch tabs) full screen, or media panel plus one viewer extra or something like that (scopes.. I don’t remember) .
When I’ve used that setup (two UI monitors + client monitor), I haven’t found it very useful. Offently used with some unused monitor, sometimes a smaller one.
What I found most useful was keeping that second monitor free for the OS for email, some messenger app, among others.
It’s not earth shattering. But if you do value screen real estate it can be useful. Useful enough to spend on an extra display just for Flame? Maybe. I just always have 2 monitors on my systems anyway.
Here’s what you get:
The media library can be on the second screen. That is space that you get back on the main screen for your batch node graph. And you’re free to make the media library wide to show long filenames as you’re not competing with other important space.
Also, in Timeline mode, the TL-FX explorer and References can be on the second monitor. So if you use those for grading in the timeline, that’s very valuable to have these easily accessible without competing with the other stuff on the main monitor.
One thing to keep in mind on Mac, which I believe you’re using: you need to turn of ‘separate spaces’ in the system dock/settings for Flame to be able to use the 2nd monitor.
That said, if you want extra space, for Flame, I would consider an ultra-wide monitor instead of a second monitor. In one suite I had a 43” ultra-wide - essentially two monitors without a seam. That works much better with the Flame UI. In batch you can comfortoably have a 3-up view with room to spare. In that case you can have batch, action schematic, and a viewer all next to each other without having to constantly hit Esc or ~. The timeline stretches nice and wide where you don’t have to constantly scroll or zoom.