10.4: Watch fullscreen QuickTime movies via Automator
May 03, '05 08:42:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
May 03, '05 08:42:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
Here's how you can view movies in full-screen mode without buying the QuickTime 7 Pro. First, make a new Automator (in /Applications) workflow. Click on Finder in the Library column, and then move "Ask for Finder Items" from the Action column into the far-right work area. Set Type to files. Check "Allow Multiple Selection."
Next, select QuickTime in the Library, and add the "Set Movie Playback Properties" item from the Action column to the work area. Check "Present" and then select "Fullscreen" from the "Presentation Size" dropdown.
Press Play and select your QuickTime movie (or movies). Whenever you open them from Finder in the future, they will automatically begin playing in fullscreen. You get access to the fullscreen controls when you move your mouse. Don't exit fullscreen mode, though, or you'll have to restart the process.
[robg adds: This didn't work the way I thought it would when testing. When you run the action, each movie you chose will briefly open then close. At that point, you can quit Automator (save the workflow if you want to use it again), and any movies you selected will now always open in fullscreen mode. The challenge comes when you want to get things back to "normal" size.
First I tried modifying the Automator action to set it back to "normal" for the same set of movies I was testing with. That didn't work -- the movies still opened in fullscreen mode. The only way I could fix it, ironically enough, requires the exact package this hint seeks to avoid: with QuickTime Pro, you can use the Window: Get Movie Properties menu item, click on the movie's name, click the Presentation tab, and uncheck the 'Enter fullscreen when opened' option. Without QuickTime Pro, though, I couldn't find any way to reverse this setting.]
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