Capture One 22 insists on running on second monitor (Windows)
My setup with my Eizo 27" as my primary screen and Wacom Cintiq as my secondary works flawlessly. With every piece of software - EXCEPT capture one. Every single other software allows me, the user, to decide what I want on which screen. Capture one refuses to move off the 16" cintiq secondary screen and onto my primary.
Opening the "dual monitor - large viewer" makes it even MORE stupid, as this viewer now is the editing surface for making masks, and THAT ONE insists on opening on the Eizo where I have no editing pen.
You can claim this as a feature all you want. It's a bug. I'm not sure if it's a mindset-bug or a programming one.
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Let me be a bit more precise:
Deciding "for the user" which monitor your software accepts running on, based on other than capabilities of the monitor is purely arrogant stupidity. Nothing else. And, given how the software happily opens the part that needs large display realestate (higher pixel count) on the smallest monitor, and the part that benefits from the pen digitizer on the monitor where it has none, and funnily enough (I just tested), if I remap the displays into having the cintiq as primary and the Eizo as secondary, it will open on the wanted monitors (still locked to monitor number, not capabilities), tells me this is simply someone in the programming team having found a feature for locking to monitor numbers, and had the idea "this is cool, we could probably do something with this", and not understood the ramifications of that. Whistles-and-bells-programming.
If swapping monitor numbers hadn't caused mayhem for EVERY OTHER PIECE OF SOFTWARE I RUN that will now default to running on the lowest resolution monitor, that would have been a temporary bandaid for the problem. Since it causes a lot of problems, that simply isn't acceptable. As it is right now, someone should probably hop over to the Wacom forums and make a warning post that EVERY SINGLE USER considering a Cintiq must make an informed choice between getting one of the best editing tablets on the market, or running Capture One. I suspect people will prefer the better editing tablet over the software with the buggy attitude.0 -
Svein
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Ian
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Might be a Wacom Cintiq thing.
I have a 30" and 27" setup and I can shift and swap the C1 viewer and browser around between them, both in single screen and dual screen modes and they stay on the monitor I left them at after a C1 restart.
C1 should open in a normal Windows window that can be dragged between monitors, unless your are F11'ed into full screen mode.
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agree it might be a Cintiq thing, I've dual monitors running under windows, and have no problem with Capture One opening on whatever monitor I left it on (although generally, I use the Dual Monitor workspace with the viewer on the main monitor, and the browser on the left hand monitor, with the various tools undocked from the tool tabs and moved to the main monitor)
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