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Program Monitor Disappears

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
August 9, 2024
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Hey Premiere Gurus!

I hope you can help me solve this minor issue. My set up is two monitors where my right one displays the program monitor full screen.

For some reason when I move to Export it disappears, which is normal as Premiere is temporarily combining the interface. However when I return to the Edit tab the program monitor stays gone.

I try going to Window and find Program Monitor unchecked with a > leading to the name of my sequence, which is checked.

The only way I can get it to return is by closing the project and reopening, which is lame and time consuming.

What is happening here and how can I fix so it does not disappear altogether or returns when back on Edit?

Thanks you so much!

chriswithcamera

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Found a fix.

Workspace > ALL PANELS > Workspace (back to whatever you were using when it vanished).

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aaronfross

Known Participant

OK, I have some very choice four letter words for this behavior. If I loosened my inhibitions just slightly and stated my true feelings on the matter, I would probably be insta-banned from these forums forever.

So, the sanitized version of my true feelings is that I am filled with irrational rage. And left wondering who is making UX decisions about these things.

The whole idea that the interface goes away when Exporting is a massive UX fail. When a user wants to export, that's all they want. They don't want the entire interface to change to some other bogus mode.

Second, the desired interface is something that the user may have spent a lot of time setting up. If it goes away, that is bad. But if it never comes back, that is INCREDIBLY HORRIBLE.

It's these sorts of epic UX fails that make Premiere extremely burdensome to work with.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Already went down that path. As is well known when dealing with Very Large Software Corporations, the Ideas forum is where important user concerns are sent to die.

I've seen too many things from the Idea ... or the old Feature Request page ... make it into Premiere to be able to give that comment credence.

There is of course a major disconnect between the way we users see things and the devs. From talking with the devs, there are always thousands of user requests/ideas ... and also, the ones with the most support "by the numbers" are often things most of the more um ... perhaps paid? ... userslike thee and me, would find rather absurd.

Add in that no one ever edits like anyone else, of the millions of daily users of these apps. Which is always the most fascinating part of NAB for me, the aisle-way discussions with other attendees.

So what any of us thinks is most logical and useful ... might not be even thought of interest, by another major user. Let alone those with vastly different workflows and deliverable needs.

So I've gotten a bit more understanding of the difficulty in choosing what gets done/added.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

chriswithcamera

Participant

Exact same problem.

I use a second monitor and once I click EXPORT the program monitor vanishes and will only reappear by using the FULL SCREEN button, which is not what I want and does not have the same utility.

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PaulMurphy

Community Expert

To help you troubleshoot the issue, I need to understand how you added the Program Monitor to your second monitor. Did you drag the Program Monitor from the Application window to the second monitor, or did you use a different method?

Cheers,
Paul

SpiderCircleAuthor

Known Participant

Yes! The program monitor was dragged from the application window to the second monitor. My workspace has been saved like this for years.

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Brett_Rooftop

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Did you find a fix?

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