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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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QuarterSwede;
Full screen isn’t the only reason to go “Pro”, just that many consumers don’t need the other features.
Quicktime pro also has a lot of record/capture capabilities, as well as means to transcode or reencode video.
Comment by JeffDM — June 11, 2005 @ 2:23 pm
Wow, this is so useful especially if you don’t have Quicktime Pro … and the only reason to buy Pro would be to get Full Screen coverage. Thanks a million!
Comment by QuarterSwede — June 5, 2005 @ 10:59 pm
From my experience with this, when using column view, you must have the file selected in the Finder with the preview for that file loaded and showing otherwise the plug-in will fail to execute for some reason.
Comment by Jonathan — May 24, 2005 @ 9:23 am