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View Movie Full Screen
Function: Opens the select file in the Finder using QuickTime Player then presents the movie in full-screen mode (even if you don’t have the pro version of QuickTime).
Author: Dan Lynn
Notes: I employed a crazy AppleScript hack to avoid the QuickTime Player full screen presentation freeze problem. This workflow is best when saved as a plug-in to the Finder: copy into ~/Library/Workflows/Applications/Finder/. This allows you to hilite a file then select View Movie Full Screen from the Automator item on the context menu when you right-click.
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when you double click on the file you just downloaded, itll come up in automator. then go to file > save as and save it as a plug-in with Finder as the location. :] then when u right click a .mov file, itll show up as a workflow in the automator context menu. hope that helps a bit.
Comment by spunk — January 13, 2007 @ 7:44 pm
Your ~/Library folder is in your username folder. That is click on your home folder and then click on Library. If the Workflows folder does not exist, create it. Do the same with the other folders. Then copy the workflow into ~/Library/Workflow/Automator/Finder
Comment by Randy — February 10, 2006 @ 6:01 pm
When I run this a full screen comes on and says switching, nothing else ever happens. Also the floating controller script doesn’t work at all, I get an error message when I tri to run. Can someone please help?!
Comment by Abbi — December 22, 2005 @ 10:59 am
To get the floating controller, I pasted these lines into the applescript right after “end tell”
tell application "Finder" to activate tell application "QuickTime Player" to activateThen to get the controller to come up, just move the mouse while the movie is playing.
Comment by Alex — October 26, 2005 @ 9:20 pm
Hey, you can also use iTunes or Centerstage for fullscreen playback. But i like this action. Any way to get the floating controller?
Comment by Chris — August 27, 2005 @ 11:03 am