One thing I would really love is to have the capability to manage video screens better. There are two things I'd like to do regularly which I can't:
- Have the control room monitor show slightly different information than the monitor on the ADR stage. My recordist really doesn't like to see the streamers on the screen as they distract from her view of sync. I could set up 3 monitors on the iMac, but as far as I can tell there's no way to duplicate put the video screen from Pro Tools on both of those without putting streamers on both of them. (And even that requires a splitter for the HDMI signal, not two different monitors in different thunderbolt/lightning ports.)
- Use only one monitor in the control room in the Foley control room with edit and video windows, but a monitor on the Foley stage with only the video. My Foley artist doesn't mind seeing a clone of my edit screen, but I don't like having the video window as big as she needs it. (The Foley stage doesn't have a full-time video monitor at present, but shares it with the control room which doubles as a sound design suite. We do have a monitor on another system in that room which we can move into the Foley stage, but it's harder to move than the one in the Foley control room.)
As far as I can tell, there's no feature in Pro Tools to do either of these things, so I'm wondering if there's a 3rd party app for it, something that could make a clone of the whole or a a segment of one monitor and can also have other apps on the 3rd (or 2nd) monitor as well. I haven't found anything in the App Store, but maybe I'm not using the right search terms. Some have suggested something comparable to Virtual VTR (not sure if that software still exists, but I know there is something), but I'm not sure it even does what I'm asking. And, of course, if Avid does have a feature I haven't found, I'm eager to hear about it as I always prefer to work without 3rd party apps and don't have any shelfware CPUs with Intel processors which would be required to run the modern versions of Virtual VTR.
TIA!