Using 2 Monitors
I recently downloaded the Trial of C1 and am really liking it but I have one question. I hooked up a 2nd monitor and what I'm seeing is all my pics on screen 1 and the selected pic and tool bar on screen 2. Is there a way to reverse this?
My # 1 Monitor is a 27" and #2 is smaller 20" and I would like to take advantage of the bigger screen when editing my photos.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm on a Mac Mini, thanks!
My # 1 Monitor is a 27" and #2 is smaller 20" and I would like to take advantage of the bigger screen when editing my photos.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm on a Mac Mini, thanks!
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I am not home at present and hence don't have both my MBP Retina and my external monitor hooked up. But I believe the process is as follows:
1) Open System Preferences -> Displays
2) You should see two monitor icons. One will be the main display and the other the second display. The second display will be displayed on either the left or right of the main display. Drag it to the other side.
As I said I am not home and this may not be correct, but it is what I remember. I will be home tomorrow and if this does not work I will be able to hook my system up and correct what is wrong (if you don't already have a posted solution).
By the way, let me ask you a question (or two). You are running two monitors on a Mac Mini. What is your Mini configuration? i5 or i7? How much RAM do you have? Are you processing raw images? Or jpgs? Do you see any delays in processing using C1 on your Mini?
I am asking because I am planning to replace my current MacBook Pro and people have been suggesting that the Mini is powerful enough (and others saying it is not). I am just trying to gather information from users.
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Your suggestion worked...Thanks!
On to your question I run a i5 Mac Mini with 8 GB of ram and a SSD Hard Drive. Capture One runs very smooth on my system. I only work with Raw Files from a Canon 5D Mk 3.
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[quote="MikeFromMesa" wrote:
I am asking because I am planning to replace my current MacBook Pro and people have been suggesting that the Mini is powerful enough (and others saying it is not). I am just trying to gather information from users.
Thank you.
I was one of those whosuggested that mini is powerful enough 😊
And I also can say that I use my mini tied to two monitors, one on the Thunderbolt port (display port cable to a Dell 2560X1440) and the other one on HDMI. Bear in mind that the HDMI only supports 1920x1200, IIRC.0 -
[quote="tantareanu" wrote:
I was one of those whosuggested that mini is powerful enough 😊
And I also can say that I use my mini tied to two monitors, one on the Thunderbolt port (display port cable to a Dell 2560X1440) and the other one on HDMI. Bear in mind that the HDMI only supports 1920x1200, IIRC.
It is clear that you were right. If Mark Russell and you can run two monitors on a Mini then I should be able to run one without any problem and that will save me from spending extra money needlessly. My external monitor is a Dell 24" and it's maximum resolution is 1920x1080 so I don't see any problem. However I do have a question.
As I mentioned I am currently working on a Retina MacBook Pro and am using the external monitor because I have some issues with the glare of the Retina screen. Since I have two monitors hooked up to it already (the built-in Retina and the external Dell) I decided to try to see how I could use two monitors if I decided to do so. I set both monitors up and configured them so they were not mirrored. So far, so good. However I have not seen any way to make C1 work as Mark Russell mentioned - with the Catalog on one monitor and the photo being edited on the other.
I tried to find some way to move the thumbnails to the second screen, but had no luck (I am assuming that is what he meant when he said "catalog"). I could not find any setup that would do that, I could not drag the thumbnails to the second monitor and could see no useful way to use 2 monitors with C1. Can you (or anyone) explain how to usefully use 2 monitors with C1. If it is a fruitful kind of exercise I might try to do that myself. Monitors are not expensive, even good ones.
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Click Windows/Viewer
You then have a new window that you can drag to the other monitor.0 -
[quote="tantareanu" wrote:
Click Windows/Viewer
You then have a new window that you can drag to the other monitor.
Oh. I see. I had tried to do it the other way by dragging the thumbnails to the second screen.
I guess what Mark Russell did when he said he kept the catalog on one monitor and the image on the other was to drag the Viewer to the second monitor and then switch the main display to show all of the images. That gives me what I was trying to do, just by doing the opposite of what I was trying to do.
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Windows->Viewer is probably what you need. You can also create Window-Create Floating Tool and drag them to a second monitor it also works like a charm 0 -
[quote="Andriy.Okhrimets" wrote:
Windows->Viewer is probably what you need. You can also create Window-Create Floating Tool and drag them to a second monitor it also works like a charm
I have been playing around with using multiple monitors and, although it seems a bit of trouble, it does provide the ability to work on a much larger image display.
I have now done this using Optics pro and CaptureOne and the more I try it the better I like it. Of course I am currently working with a MacBook pro and an external 24" monitor and setting them both up in my workspace means they are both about 4 feet away and the 15" MBP screen is a bit small, but I begin to see the lure of this kind of setup. The image being editing is about twice the size as normally is the case and that is quite nice.
I could see getting used to this, but then i would have to get a second real monitor. I wonder if the MBP can support two external monitors. There are two dvi ports ... And an HDMI port.0 -
Windows | Viewer is the way to go. Then move the tool tabs you want to use onto the secondary display, and save it as a workspace so you only have to set it up once (per C1 version, at least).
When reopening C1, open the workspace. In my experience, the windows won't always come back in the same places where they were left in the profile, so I use the third-party app Moom to move and size the windows across two monitors correctly. Works a treat!
I'm using dual 27" screens and a Wacom tablet to fly the whole thing, and I find that in my workflow, putting a second copy of the Library, Process, Adjustments, and Metadata tabs into the session/catalog view, and having a full set of tabs in the Viewer for a single image, works great--that way I have quick and easy access to things that are likely to have to work on multiple images where I can easily select multiple images without having to 'reach' across the whole screen area all the time.0 -
[quote="mkphotomedia" wrote:
When reopening C1, open the workspace. In my experience, the windows won't always come back in the same places where they were left in the profile, so I use the third-party app Moom to move and size the windows across two monitors correctly. Works a treat!
I'm using dual 27" screens and a Wacom tablet to fly the whole thing, and I find that in my workflow, putting a second copy of the Library, Process, Adjustments, and Metadata tabs into the session/catalog view, and having a full set of tabs in the Viewer for a single image, works great--that way I have quick and easy access to things that are likely to have to work on multiple images where I can easily select multiple images without having to 'reach' across the whole screen area all the time.
I am going to look into moon as soon as this post is complete.
I have already done much of what you are suggesting - that is, I have setup the adjustment controls in the Viewer so they correspond to my normal workflow but once that is done there seems little need for a second monitor since all of the controls are essentially hidden in the Viewer window. The only issue is the photo catalog and I suppose that is what I need to put on a second display. What windows are you using on a second display? The whole regular processing window, controls and image? Only the catalog? What would be the purpose of having adjustment controls on both monitors?
Or am I missing the point?0
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