Play QuickTime Movies Full Screen Without QuickTime Pro
Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks - January 30th, 2007 - 19 Comments
If there’s one annoying thing about the QuickTime Player it is the lack of fullscreen movie support by default. Typically, if you want to play QuickTime movies at full screen you have to shell out $30 for QuickTime Pro, or use a third party application like VLC. Don’t pay the $30 and don’t download the extra software if you don’t need to though, and thanks to a very simple three-lined AppleScript that scales the movie to your screen size, you don’t have to. Very crafty!
This script is super easy, follow these steps.
- Launch the AppleScript Script Editor – spotlight for “Script Editor”
- Type the following exactly:
- tell application “QuickTime Player”
- present front movie scale screen
- end tell
- Compile and Save As “Fullscreen”
- Launch your QuickTime movie, and Launch your Fullscreen Script
It’s that easy.
Thanks for the tip! Here’s a further idea: creating a Finder plug-in in Automator using this script. I combined the Actions “Open Finder Items” (with QuickTime Player) with “Run AppleScript”. Could also work as a stand-alone app.
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This script has been around for ages. You can find it in the usual places, as “QTamateur”…
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I get this error
“expected expression, property or key form, etc. but found unknown token”
I receive the same error as Alexander
If you did a cut and paster of the code, just replace the “smart quotes” with quotes you typed from the keyboard.
Is there a way to take this fullscreen one step further and do the applescript with a sequence of movies?
How do you “launch” your fullscreen script? Do you click “run”? If I do that it gives me the message “Quicktime player got an error: can’t get document 1. invalid index
I saved it to the documents folder, was that wrong?
any help would be appreciated.
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Thank you for your site. I have found here much useful information…
Does this work for the QuickTime plug in or only the stand alone app?
How about using the in-bound fullscreen option??
omg..
Did the steps but does nt work for me. I usually use flv player or WMP as alternatives.
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I gave up trying to get this to work and just forked over the 30 bucks
How about using the in-bound fullscreen option??
omg..
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Is there a way to take this fullscreen one step further and do the applescript with a sequence of movies?
I receive the same error as Alexander
is it possible to increment this into the firefox plug in? I want to see a live stream in full screen (do not work with vlc, cos need to log in at first)