Import Adobe After Effects Composition Pops up on different monitor

[Nick.Boyer]

I've been searching around and can't find a solution so I apologize if this has been asked before.

Every time I go to import an After Effects Composition, the "Import After Effects Composition" window that pops up always shows up on a different monitor (I use 3 monitors at my workstation). Normally, this wouldn't be that big of an issue, but my pop up window literally opens up at the corner of one of my displays with barely any of the window actually visible. It's mostly off screen. I'm constantly having to move it back to the monitor I have Premiere Pro opened on. It's worth mentioning that this is the ONLY pop up window I have issues with. Any other pop up window inside of Premiere Pro (IE audio gain, effects windows, etc) does not give me this problem. 

When looking around for solutions, I found similar posts and all the solutions involve trying to reset the workspace (did not work for me) or deleting all the program settings and preferences (also did not work for me). How on earth do I tell Premiere Pro to open every pop up window on whatever display Premiere is in?

I'm on a Mac using Ventura 13.5 with an M1 Max chip and 64GB of RAM. My next resort is to uninstall Adobe and reinstall it but I don't even know how this happened in the first place and I would like to avoid this problem in the future.

[R Neil Haugen]

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

[Nick.Boyer]

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.

[R Neil Haugen]

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.