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OK. So I'm in a frustrating predicament. I'm working with video in Live version 6 on a new MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Laptop.

I have been using the extended desktop display at home, so I have the video window adjusted to fit the entire screen on one monitor so that I can record audio and work with my sound design using the session view/ arrangement view on the laptop monitor. When I disconnect the additional monitor to work on stuff away from home (working with the same video/ audio project), the video window opens and is way too big for the screen. The problem is that my mouse can't reach the bottom right corner of the video window (because it hangs below the actual size of the laptop screen) and there is no way to adjust the window!!! I have tried every hotkey imaginable, even tried switching the video window to FULL SCREEN and then back again and nothing works! There has got to be a way to get the video screen to adjust back to its tiny default sized window because I can't do any work on this project until I figure it out. It seems like it should be a no brainer, but I'm at a loss here. Somebody help! Thanks!

I have the same problem. Help would be good. I suppose in the meantime we should just remember to shrink the window really small before we unplug the external monitor.

Huza,

I ended up resolving this issue soon after I posted it (after several attempts to ask help from the ableton support...to no avail). This is the solution I came up with and passed along to Nico @ tech support:

Nico,

I was just messing around with my System Preferences and I figured out a trick. I changed the resolution of my computer to 800 x 600 (originally was 1440x900), then clicked back on Live and the video window magically was resized so that I could click on bottom right corner! I then resized the video window and changed back to the 1440x 900 resolution.

It must have been that my extended desktop monitor has a crappier resolution than my laptop. Anyway, this may help you if you have any other people with this problem. Thanks again for the suggestions!

Mark

Hope this helps! I have done some more tinkering with extended desktop settings so definitely let me know if you have anymore questions!