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Use Multiple Monitors To Your Advantage
Mar 11, 2025
An easy way to use multiple monitors to your advantage.
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hey everyone today i'm going to show you
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how you can use multiple monitors to
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your advantage
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now there's a lot of different uses for
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multiple monitors connected to your mac
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there's a lot of different things you
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can do with them
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to make your life more productive
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so first off if you like to video edit
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and i do a lot of video editing what you
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can do is you can open up this works for
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either imovie or final cut and you can
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distribute some different parts of the
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window over to your secondary monitor so
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i'm going to open up imovie now in this
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project you can see that on the left
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monitor on my secondary display i have
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the viewer for imovie and on the right i
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have my project library as well as what
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i'm working on editing
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now normally the viewer would also be on
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the main display and it gives you less
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room to edit so this right here is how
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imovie would normally look but what i
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can do is i can go up to the window menu
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and on the window menu i can go down to
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viewer on other display and as soon as i
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click that you can now see that my
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viewer is on the other display and i can
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work on editing from right here now the
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same is also true for final cut pro 10.
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as you can see on the left monitor my
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secondary display i have all my event
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libraries and my clips and on the right
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i have my viewer and my editing as well
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as inspector windows so normally in
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final cut pro 10 this is what you'll see
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but what i can do is i can go up to the
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window menu and if i scroll down you can
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see i have a couple different options
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here show events on second display show
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viewer on second display or revert to
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original layout and i'm just going to
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show
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events on my secondary display and now
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you can see from here my events are on
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my secondary display and it gives me
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more room to work now you can also use
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your secondary display to show handy
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information
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with something like geek tool and i did
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a different how-to on that and i'll make
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sure to put a link in this post
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so that you can see
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uh how to set up its geek tool on your
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desktop
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but from here you can see i can display
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handy information
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right on my secondary display
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now of course the main function of a
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secondary display is to run
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other applications so you can see here i
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always run a twitter client on my
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secondary display and this really makes
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effective use out of the space i have
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but my final and probably favorite way
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to use a secondary display is to use it
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for file organization now if you look on
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my main monitor here you can see that
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it's very clean and very neat and there
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are no files and folders scattered
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around my desktop but if you look at my
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secondary display here you can see that
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i tend to keep a lot of files and
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folders on it and kind of scattered
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around where i need them and for what i
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need them and this i think is the most
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handy thing that you can do with a
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secondary display well it's probably one
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of the most overlooked as well for
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example when i'm working in the finder
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and i have a whole bunch of finder
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windows open and let's say i want to
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grab something from my desktop i don't
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necessarily want to have to dig through
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all the finder windows or maybe use
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expose or something like that
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to get to the files on my desktop
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where with having all my files on my
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desktop on my secondary display it's
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very easy to quick access and drag
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things over
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you can also apply this to emails if you
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want to drag over attachments all kinds
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of things
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if i save any graphics from the web i
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can just drag them right to the
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secondary display it's very handy and
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it's very useful and this i think is
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probably the best way that you can use a
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secondary display so i hope this video
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helped you maximize the possibilities of
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your secondary display and as always if
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there's any how-to's that you'd like to
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see me do make sure you leave a comment
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or send me an email so that i can get
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right to work on any how to's you'd like
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to see me do in the future so i hope you
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found this video useful and thank you
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for watching
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