Hey all!
Everybody complains (and with good reason!) about not having the Full Screen Play feature in Quicktime unless you pay for the Pro version. There's good news: if Full Screen is the only thing making you pay for Pro, there's a free way to 'unlock' this feature.
This is based on a tip from Macworld found here, which I found thanks to Digg. I modified it slightly to get it a bit easier to access. This is all in 10.4, Tiger, Quicktime 7.1.2. Your milage may vary.
AppleScript Utility
First off, if you don't have the Scripts Menu in your menu bar (looks like a little S-shaped "scroll'), add it by launching AppleScript Utility (Spotlight for it, if you need to). Make sure the boxes marked "Show Script Menu in menu bar" and "Show Library Scripts" are checked. I also set "Show application scripts at:" to 'top.'
Quicktime Player
Launch Quicktime Player. With Quicktime Player as the active app, go to your new Scripts menu. Select "Open Scripts Folder" -> "Open Quicktime Player Scripts Folder". This creates and opens the folder "/Users/yourname/Library/Scripts/Applications/Quicktime Player". You could also make the folders yourself, but since the Applescript Menu will do it for you, why?
Script Editor
Launch Script Editor. Enter in the following script, verbatim:
If you want, you can test it out by opening a movie in QT, playing it, and running the script from Script Editor.
Now save this script in the folder we created using the Scripts menu ("/Users/yourname/Library/Scripts/Applications/Quicktime Player") as a "script" type file. Whatever you name this script file is how this action will appear in the Script menu, so name it something totally obvious, like "Full Screen Quicktime" or something similar.
That's it! You can quit Script Editor and go back into QT Player. Play a movie, and from the Script Menu, you'll see a new section titled "Quicktime Player Scripts." Underneath will be your Full Screen hack! Select it, and you're good to go!
BONUS TIP: You can use the "Open Scripts Folder" trick to create a scripts folder for any app! Then in the context of that app, your app-specific scripts will show up in the Script Menu.
Hope this saved a few people the $25 (or however much it is in your currency of choice) on QT Pro.
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Everybody complains (and with good reason!) about not having the Full Screen Play feature in Quicktime unless you pay for the Pro version. There's good news: if Full Screen is the only thing making you pay for Pro, there's a free way to 'unlock' this feature.
This is based on a tip from Macworld found here, which I found thanks to Digg. I modified it slightly to get it a bit easier to access. This is all in 10.4, Tiger, Quicktime 7.1.2. Your milage may vary.
AppleScript Utility
First off, if you don't have the Scripts Menu in your menu bar (looks like a little S-shaped "scroll'), add it by launching AppleScript Utility (Spotlight for it, if you need to). Make sure the boxes marked "Show Script Menu in menu bar" and "Show Library Scripts" are checked. I also set "Show application scripts at:" to 'top.'
Quicktime Player
Launch Quicktime Player. With Quicktime Player as the active app, go to your new Scripts menu. Select "Open Scripts Folder" -> "Open Quicktime Player Scripts Folder". This creates and opens the folder "/Users/yourname/Library/Scripts/Applications/Quicktime Player". You could also make the folders yourself, but since the Applescript Menu will do it for you, why?
Script Editor
Launch Script Editor. Enter in the following script, verbatim:
Code:
tell application "Quicktime Player"
present front movie scale screen
end tellNow save this script in the folder we created using the Scripts menu ("/Users/yourname/Library/Scripts/Applications/Quicktime Player") as a "script" type file. Whatever you name this script file is how this action will appear in the Script menu, so name it something totally obvious, like "Full Screen Quicktime" or something similar.
That's it! You can quit Script Editor and go back into QT Player. Play a movie, and from the Script Menu, you'll see a new section titled "Quicktime Player Scripts." Underneath will be your Full Screen hack! Select it, and you're good to go!
BONUS TIP: You can use the "Open Scripts Folder" trick to create a scripts folder for any app! Then in the context of that app, your app-specific scripts will show up in the Script Menu.
Hope this saved a few people the $25 (or however much it is in your currency of choice) on QT Pro.
-rand()