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Its getting late and I have to drive 400+ miles tomorrow so this’ll be a quickie :) After talking about trial software that comes with OS X I started thinking about Quicktime and what ‘going pro’ actually gets you. And to tell you the truth, I really had no clue what pro will give you other than being able to display videos in full screen. So I took a trip to Apple’s Quicktime Pro page to find out why I would want to ‘go pro’ and here’s the low down.

• Gives the ability to watch movies full screen.
• Pro allows you to save your favorite movie trailers on your computer.
• Easily create slideshows with a soundtrack
• Record video

Out of those 4 features the only one I could see myself doing on a regular basis is viewing video in full screen. So Quicktime Pro really isn’t for me. Not being able to watch Quicktime videos in full screen is sort of a bummer though. So I did a bit of digging around I found an easy workaround that scores big points in my book :)

Watching videos in full screen without Pro is actually quite easy with a simple AppleScript!

If you’ve never used an apple script before here’s some basic instructions. Open up the Script Editor.app found in your Applications directory. Copy and paste the following code into the Script Editor.app window.

tell application "QuickTime Player"
        present front movie scale screen
end tell

Now click

File > Save As…

and save it as an Application.

You’re all set! Now anytime that you are watching a video with the Quicktime Player simply run this application that you’ve made and you’ll instantly be watching videos in full screen :)

This works on my machine with Quicktime 7.1.5, your results may vary with other versions.

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