Import Adobe After Effects Composition Pops up on different monitor

Fascinating what it's doing, right?  Sheesh.

As I noted, Premiere seems to have to me a bit antiquated "view" of working with mulitple monitors. For specifics, it seems to still be based on the upper left pixel of the "main" UI monitor as the 0/0 pixel. And ALL other screen pixels are computed from that.

So if you have your main on th monitor in front of you, and there's another monitor to the left, the top left pixel there depends on whether that screen is "beside" your main screen or above below, and of course, the upper left pixel's second data, the width, will be determined by how many pixels wide that screen is.

So ... my left monitor is 1920x1080, and in the UI, is 'beside', neither above nor below. So the upper left pixel of that screen is seen by Pr as something like "pixel -1920x0" ... not just the Dell 1920x1080 monitor.

I would like to be able to simply say, put this panel group on X monitor, and be done with it. But we can't.

And yes, like you're getting, there can be odd stuff in monitor placements of popups & such. And these can differ between users somehow also.

Hey Neil,

For what it's also worth, I have premiere entirely within one monitor. I don't have any premiere windows sitting on any other monitor. I opened Premiere one day, moved the whole window to my monitor of choice, and now it always opens there. I'm also using the default editing workspace. So the fact that any of premiere's windows would open on a different monitor is weird to me. I figured this would be easier to just attach a quick video showing my problem so my set up is also a little more clear. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CnrWLdsV_t1nAs-rHnGahdZByxw-LVF9/view?usp=sharing

One thing I quickly tested after making the video... I moved my Premiere window to my left monitor. Tried importing my AE composition and my pop up window appeared on the right monitor this time. Like, the monitor I wanted it to open on originally. I move premiere back over to the right monitor, I try to import my AE comp again, and same problem as before. My pop up opens up on my laptop screen in the most annoying place possible.

Premiere's monitor "awareness" to me is a bit ... antique. So I'll give you some information that may be of use.

Premiere seems built around having the 'main' Premiere window, the one with the full menu system bar, on the main UI monitor. If you make your custom workspaces with the window menu bar on the main OS level UI monitor, and your other monitors with panel groups, it mostly works as expected.

And also, it "wants" to have the Program monitor on that physical monitor. Which can of course be a pain.

But if your setup puts the menu bar panel on say monitor 2, and the Program monitor on monitor 3 ... that can be problematic.

So I keep the Program monitor, ECP, on the monitor with the main UI menu bar, and use the Transmit Out to send a good feed to my preferred reference monitor. And have a panel group on each of two other monitors.

And ... if one line a pixel wide from a panel group on one monitor overlaps onto another monitor ... that can also be a problem. Weirdly enough.

Neil