I am having consistent issues when running Director on multiscreen Macs. Specifically, when moved to the secondary screen (especially Retina to standard HD display), it does not scale the UI back down to standard HD. Resizing the window does trigger a redraw making it (mostly) useable. However, when pulling up the insert dialog, it fails. This means that Dyn8 and other insert configuration are no longer usable.
Moving the window back to the retina display seems to work fine.
This is a problem for me because I have my laptop set as the primary desktop but I primarily use the secondary display as my main. (… for reasons) Regardless, the app should be moveable between screens.
Can you change the resolution of the secondary screen? If so, you should play around with some available options until you find one that works well. For whatever reason, the Director software does not scale well across all resolutions, but you can generally find one that works OK if you try various resolution options.
I can’t as it’s a 1920x1200 display and the laptop is what it is (macOS does not allow for changing resolution). The interesting this is I don’t see the same issue with SQ MixPad or dLive Director. To me this means it is possible and should work and I find it frustrating that it does not.
Unless I am missing something, you certainly can change resolutions in MacOS.
We get plenty of Visual Artists and suchlike hooking up to our LED wall who have to adjust their resolutions to suit.
I stand corrected .. there is an option to adjust the resolution, it’s just very buried.
However, my complaint still stands. I don’t feel that a user should have to change resolutions to allow a single app to work well on multiple monitors. If all the other A&H apps didn’t work, I would be a bit more understanding, but they all work just fine. As do many other Qt-based, cross-platform apps that run on macOS (ie Yamaha DM3, DM7, CL, QL editors, Davinci Resolve, etc.)
We have similar issues on PC. One tip I can give you, is that any resolution changes need to be made before launching Director. Once it’s running you can safely change your resolution back to what you need. It’s the dumbest thing ever.