Stretching Timeline cross a two computer monitor config.

I'm working with FCP6 using two Computer monitors. I like to stretch my timeline across
the two screens. I then save my window layout. If someone else comes to use the machine,
calls up the standard window layout, and then I come back later and call up my custom window layout that I saved earlier, the timeline is no longer stretched out across the two screens.
Does anybody know why and how I can make it default to the timeline stretch across the two windows?
Thanks.

Mathew,
You shouldn't have a problem using built-in audio if you're monitoring on the computer monitor. Built-in is low enough latency that it shouldn't matter. As you say, they appear to be in sync. If you were monitoring video through your Decklink, and audio through the built-in, then I would suspect a problem because the video D to A conversion introduces video latency.
Why a sequence would go a bit out of sync a few weeks later after making no changes is a mystery. Unless you changed something else in your system that could have changed the buffer settings for built-in audio? Just a longshot.

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