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Gowtham Krishna
Gowtham Krishna
Participant
April 29, 2026

Multi Monitor setup errors

  • April 29, 2026
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Premier pro is working very differently in multi and single monitor setup. Premier tends to freeze every time i switch suddenly from anything, any tab / window to another. it also pickes up the colour incorrectly from the second screen. it get's the position all wrong.

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      R Neil Haugen
      R Neil Haugen
      Legend
      April 30, 2026

      You could also do transmit out to the external monitor, and shrink the Program monitor down quite small on the main window to save space. I’ve done that before.

      Everyone's mileage always varies ...
      Gowtham Krishna
      Gowtham KrishnaAuthor
      Participant
      April 30, 2026

      Okaay. i didn’t knew such a feature existed. thanks for this. 

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Legend
        April 29, 2026

        Premiere’s monitor use is rather annoying as there are certain predictable behaviors that “we” probably all find annoyning …

         

        Such as ... the Program monitor should always be on the same program window with the main menu panel. Period. And that window should be on your computer’s “main” home screen. Which is an annoying limitation.

         

        But if you move the Program monitor away from the main Premiere window, or undock it, biazarreness happens.

         

        In general you need to keep the Program monitor and the ECP on the main Premiere window, and on the main “home” monitor for the system. Anything else can be moved to a panel group on another monitor, although Premiere will routinely try to move Projects back to the lower-left quadrant of the main window panel group.

         

        I don’t like this behavior, but I know it will happen, so I don’t trigger it.

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
          Gowtham Krishna
          Gowtham KrishnaAuthor
          Participant
          April 30, 2026

          So true, Once these two are in place, the problems don’t usually occur. but the reason why i use a secondary monitor along with my laptop is because of the bad colour accuracy of my main screen. which is why i keep the program monitor in the secondary screen to do the grading and anything that would require colour accuracy. but if this is the case i need to move this back and forth just for that purpose . 

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