Play QuickTime Movies Full Screen Without QuickTime Pro
January 30th, 2007 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
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.
Source: TechPwn
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Comments: 8
Comment from Tony Ward
Time: January 30, 2007, 6:21 am
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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Comment from Cyrano
Time: January 30, 2007, 10:40 am
This script has been around for ages. You can find it in the usual places, as “QTamateur”…
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Comment from Alexander
Time: March 3, 2007, 7:21 pm
I get this error
“expected expression, property or key form, etc. but found unknown token”
Comment from Adam
Time: April 24, 2007, 1:09 am
I receive the same error as Alexander
Comment from Harry
Time: May 9, 2007, 3:31 pm
If you did a cut and paster of the code, just replace the “smart quotes” with quotes you typed from the keyboard.
Comment from Mark
Time: June 12, 2007, 8:14 pm
Is there a way to take this fullscreen one step further and do the applescript with a sequence of movies?
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