Why Single Viewer on Edit Page

I have been using Davinci Resolve for about three years and always have this problem. The problem is that the preview window for the source material is not available. So, if you are looking on the upper right, you only see the timeline viewer. If I reset the UI, then it restores the source viewer but then I lose all of my favorites. I posted this a while ago and I have not gotten a response so I’m posting it again.

Basically, I am asking if there is a simple way to restore both viewers, but not restore all of the UI settings? Oh, and the Inspector window is not open.

Uhm may be you have lower minimal resolution to use resolve?
Also on my notebook of 2012 (full hd monitor)I can run resolve with dual view if I not open too much windows (inspector and media pool at same time are too much).
What is your resolution?


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You can switch between dual or single viewer by clicking on the icon top right of timeline window as show in the attached. Also inspector can be turned on or off by clicking on the inspector tab in the menu as shown. When you have an arrangement you like save it as a layout under workspace menu and give it your own naming. You can then call up this layout any time you want or make different layouts for different work.

Take note that the View switch button shown in the picture above will not show up if your DPI is set to something else other than 100%

Raising the DPI scaling in Windows or in Resolve, depending on the monitor size, that button will not be shown, this unless you close the Inspector for example.

Resolve detects that there isn't enough room for all the elements to be shown, when low resolution screens are involved or high DPI i set.

ohimbz,
At the risk of sounding really dumb, what do you mean by dpi? I assume that you mean dots per inch but I don’t understand how this relates to resolve. In other words, how do I verify the DPI?

Make sure Display Scaling is set to 100%.

For 2160 resolution on a 28" monitor, things will be quite small. You might want to consider a 32" for 2160 resolution.

ohimbz,
At the risk of sounding really dumb, what do you mean by dpi? I assume that you mean dots per inch but I don’t understand how this relates to resolve. In other words, how do I verify the DPI?

I meant Scale from Windows, in the past the setting was called DPI

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the old name

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Anyway, either Scale from Windows or scale from within Davinci Resolve will remove that dual viewer model in some instances.

You will have to close Inspector or other windows like Media to make room for them to show up again.

As an example here is the Edit page on a 1920X1080 monitor set to 100% scaling. Opening the Inspector will only show one viewer.

Sort of related... I have a 4k 32" GUI Monitor.
I'm 75 yrs old and using 150% Windows Scaling makes it very difficult for me to read the text.
Is there a way to resize the text and not screw everything up in Resolve?

The image I posted was on a 32" , 2560x1440 display at 100% scaling

The image I posted was on a 32", 2560x1440 display at 100% scaling

I think on a 32" monitor you could go up a notch to 3840x2160. We're using 2550X1440 on our 27" displays, so I don't think jumping to 3200x1800 would be that big a stretch with a 32". We don't have the room for a 32" GUI display(s) in our room, but I wouldn't hesitate to go with that if I were in a large theatrical room with a 20-foot (or larger) projection screen, and the clients were seated in front of me.



As shown above, I would probably tilt the displays forward a bit if I were using a 32" GUI display, and make sure it didn't interfere with me seeing all of the projection screen. [this pic is courtesy of Kevin Cannon at Prehistoric Digital, formerly of Santa Monica]

Yeah, normally you only get the dual viewers in the Edit window if you close the Inspector and other panels.

Rather than using a larger monitor, my preference is to use more than one monitor. I use three 1200 x 1920 monitors, which lets me spread the Resolve UI across two of them and use the third for "Video Clean Feed" (available only in the Studio version, I believe). This gives me two viewers in the Edit window even with the Inspector and all the other panels open. It also gives me a nice large (almost fullscreen) viewer in Fusion at the same time as a full sized node tree working area.

I really like the ability to be able to manipulate the onscreen controls of the various tools while simultaneously seeing the clean result on the Video Clean Fee monitor. IMHO this is a much superior editing workspace compared to a single very large and high resolution monitor.

Or get an 34" Ultra Wide monitor, but the rule applies, don't use scaling above 100%

For clean feed i use TAB to enter/exit cinema view.

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I have been using Davinci Resolve for about three years and always have this problem. The problem is that the preview window for the source material is not available. So, if you are looking on the upper right, you only see the timeline viewer. If I reset the UI, then it restores the source viewer but then I lose all of my favorites. I posted this a while ago and I have not gotten a response so I’m posting it again.

Basically, I am asking if there is a simple way to restore both viewers, but not restore all of the UI settings? Oh, and the Inspector window is not open.

I have the same exact setup, with same monitor and two viewers show with both the Media Pool AND Inspector open. Scaling in System Prefs is set to 2560 x 1440.

Don't forget, if you only have a single viewer showing, you can switch between the Source and Timeline view with the Q key.

Marc: I have clean feed to either my iPad or a 27" 3840x2160 monitor too. From all I have read 3840x2160 is not a good scaling for a Mac and I use my 32" for 2 PC's and the Studio Max. Most of time it is just the 32". Saves my neck as I can look straight ahead. Even go full screen as it is not a bad monitor.