During pre-production we used a PC + monitor (main display) + beamer (2nd display) and all worked fine ... last night we used the beamer only (no monitor) and noticed that Magic takes significantly longer (i.e. several seconds) to load (the application itself, no Magic project file loaded yet) ... also seemed scene preparation when loading Magic project files slower (hence, videos got out of sync because they could not be "loaded" fast enough) ... but same PC just no monitor ... I was always under the impression that it all depends solely on the graphic card? anything I can do about that?? anything I need to be aware if I get a smaller, cheap monitor for stage use ???
I think I will have to have a monitor as main display attached otherwise the beamer will show all the file loading / scene preparation before it jumps into full screen display mode ... anything I can do to keep the display from updating while Magic does its initial file loading number crunching ... something like going into CTRL+F mode right away and not seeing the progress indicators? FYI, we use one Magic file per song which is started by MIDI triggered batch file ... hence, all this fuss ...
oh, BTW: this piece of software rocks - features and stability are extremely impressive - you got one very happy camper here
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