[FCPX: 10.4.10] Three Monitors - Screens Setup Placement Bugs

It requires some discipline, but Yes, we can do it.

Bear with me as I try to explain.

1) The easiest way is to begin by setting Display (2) as the "main" screen in System Preferences->Displays->Arrangement

This is done by dragging the little white menu bar over to the right display.

2) Start FCP on the iMac display. To make sure it starts there:

2a) Click the real menu bar on the iMac display to make it "active"

2b) Start FCP without clicking anywhere else - I recommend using Spotlight: press command-space, type Final, enter

2c) Window->Show in Secondary Display->Browser

3) There is no step 3 :-)

I have known this trick for years.

I would rather have FCP let us name the displays and select them at will - instead of "Secondary Display", we could have Show on (name of display)->Browser; or at least have an option to determine which is the secondary display in the preferences, like we do for "A/V Output".

As it happens, the Arrangements tab of System Preferences lets us nominate a primary display (the one with the little menu bar), but not a secondary and terciary display. So the trick is start FCP on a screen that is not the primary; this will ensure that it uses the primary for the "second display".

Since all displays have menu bars, and even the Dock (depending on the Dock position and relative location), it is not really important otherwise which of the displays we name as "primary", and this works for FCP, so I don't have a problem with this "trick" :-)