Timeline Spanning Two Monitors

I figure this is a totally easy issue to solve, but I can't for the life of me find an answer in help, in the forum archives or on google so I'll throw it to you all...

How do I get the timeline to span across both of my monitors in FCP 5.0.1 on OS 10.4.4?

A bit more detail...what happens it that the timeline is physicall "locked" to one monitor or the other. What I want to do is drag out the timeline to extend it across both monitors at the same time. I was able to do this with the same version of FCP in Panther on my G4, but not since upgrading to the G5 with Tiger.

check your monitor layout in system prefs.

you must have them around the wrong way, or aligned wrong, because there's nothing in FCP that would stop you doing that.

check the bottom edge of the monitor your timeline starts on is not lower that the bottom edge of the monitor you want to drag to.
maybe that's getting in the way?

cheers,
nick

And if your two monitors are not the 'same" in terms of size, and resolution selected (System Prefs>Displays), you will not be able to freely extend from one monitor to the next.

If you can move your mouse from monitor to monitor, then you can drag and extend your timeline. Again, in System Prefs>Displays you set the left-to-right order of the monitors, and which monitor contains the icons of the hard drives (which becomes the default or start-up Monitor).

If the two monitors are not the "same" and you have your timeline at the bottom of the default monitor and can't extend it to the second monitor, then...

Try positioning the timeline more in the middle of your default monitor and then try extending to the second monitor. Ten reposition the timeline (vertically), until you reach the desired layout appearance on your set up.



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