Media Screen Coordinates

Overview

When you select a Media Item and click the Load button, a Media Screen is created. The Screen can be projected onto a second monitor (onto a TV, screen projector or other digital screen) for performances and presentations.

Connecting your Secondary Monitor

To project your video onto a secondary monitor, first connect the device (TV monitor, video projector device, etc.) to your computer via the video connector (ex. VGA, S-video, HDMI, or other connector). If you're a laptop user, you don't have the option of adding another video adapter, but your laptop might support using Dualview with an external monitor and the laptop's built-in display.

Some advanced graphics cards may provide other advanced methods for connecting a secondary monitor. Consult your graphics card User's Guide for available options.

After you do the Dualview Setup below, you'll be able to drag the Media Screens onto the secondary monitor. There are similar procedures to do Dualview Setup on Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Dualview Setup - Windows XP

1.  Right-click the desktop, and then click Properties.
2.  In the Display Properties dialog box ( Figure 1.), click the Settings tab.
3.  Click on the secondary monitor (shown as the "2" monitor icon in the figure).
4.  Then check Extend the Windows Desktop onto this monitor. Click Apply or OK.

The Windows Taskbar may extend onto the secondary monitor. If so, to hide the Windows Taskbar from audience view, right click on the Taskbar and and pick Properties from the resulting context menu. Then, check the Auto-hide the Taskbar checkbox. To access the Taskbar when it is hidden, hover you mouse cursor over the Taskbar location on your Desktop.

Dualview Setup - Windows 7/Vista

1.  Right-click the desktop, and then click Screen Resolution.
2.  In the Screen Resolution dialog box ( Figure 2.), pick Extend these displays from the Multiple Displays pulldown.
3.  Then Click Apply or OK.

Screen Coordinates System

Screen Coordinates are based on a Cartesian coordinate system. The X axis is horizontal position. The Y axis is vertical position. Note that the Y axis is positive in the Down direction (Unlike typical coordinate systems used in high school Math classes -- it's a Microsoft thing.). Location 0,0 is positioned at the top, left corner of your computer monitor (red dot in Figure 3.). The secondary monitor continues to grow coordinates (extends) where your computer monitor coordinates end. For example, if your computer monitor resolution is set to 1024,768 pixels , the top, left corner of your secondary monitor would be Location 1025,0 (X,Y).

If you design you Media List on a different system from your performance system and the two systems have different monitor resolutions, you may need to adjust Screens Sizes and Locations to map to the performance system.

Some advanced graphics cards may provide other methods for mapping windows to Screen Coordinates on a secondary monitor. Consult your graphics card User's Guide for available options.