macsound
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Little bit of back story:
I had a small venue approach me to replace their 27" lobby tv and 3 vertical pinboards with 3 55" vertical tvs. At the time I was working in corporate AV and we used a product called Monitors Anywhere. For the slideshows they ran, this worked totally ok. Then they decided it was more useful to have live video of the show so people in the lobby could see what was going on, either the ushers, people with crying babies, etc.
Somewhat simultaneously, the Monitors Anywhere license they purchased stopped supporting newer versions of windows on the server, essentially breaking the lobby display's link to the server if the PC updated - stupid Windows. I was able to overcome this with a group policy change.
During Covid, they were holding very small meetings and livestreamed events in the lobby, since it had large doors that opened to the outside and they wanted to have a powerpoint on the tvs.
TL;DR, the usecase for this videowall has changed and my solution was to replace the PC server -> Monitors anywhere components with a single Mac Mini with the 3 displays direct connected.
Here's my question:
Does anyone know of a Mac window manager that can create or trigger specific window placement of certain apps.
I've seen this one but unsure if it works with multiple displays. https://rectangleapp.com
Essentially I need to be able to assign an NDI video monitor to span all 3 displays, have Chrome only on the 2 right displays etc.
Any experience with multiple displays being driven by a mac would be great!
Currently windows never open in the same size when I open them that they were when I last closed it.
I had a small venue approach me to replace their 27" lobby tv and 3 vertical pinboards with 3 55" vertical tvs. At the time I was working in corporate AV and we used a product called Monitors Anywhere. For the slideshows they ran, this worked totally ok. Then they decided it was more useful to have live video of the show so people in the lobby could see what was going on, either the ushers, people with crying babies, etc.
Somewhat simultaneously, the Monitors Anywhere license they purchased stopped supporting newer versions of windows on the server, essentially breaking the lobby display's link to the server if the PC updated - stupid Windows. I was able to overcome this with a group policy change.
During Covid, they were holding very small meetings and livestreamed events in the lobby, since it had large doors that opened to the outside and they wanted to have a powerpoint on the tvs.
TL;DR, the usecase for this videowall has changed and my solution was to replace the PC server -> Monitors anywhere components with a single Mac Mini with the 3 displays direct connected.
Here's my question:
Does anyone know of a Mac window manager that can create or trigger specific window placement of certain apps.
I've seen this one but unsure if it works with multiple displays. https://rectangleapp.com
Essentially I need to be able to assign an NDI video monitor to span all 3 displays, have Chrome only on the 2 right displays etc.
Any experience with multiple displays being driven by a mac would be great!
Currently windows never open in the same size when I open them that they were when I last closed it.