iPhoto Slideshow to QuickTime

At 15:51 -0800 UTC, on 2006-01-31, Shirley Jordan wrote:

> I have a slideshow in iPhoto with music that I love to watch on the
> full screen. I want to send it on a CD to a friend, so I have saved
> it as a Quicktime movie. It all works fine except it plays in a
> window rather than the full screen like it does in iPhoto. Is there a
> setting I am missing, or is it not possible to do what I want. The
> other party is on a PC, not a Mac.
>
> [I believe this is a limitation of QuickTime non-Pro, and if your recipient
>has QuickTime Pro, they'll be able to play full-screen. It's entirely
>possible there are other utilities that will do it too. -Adam]

QuickTime 'non-Pro' can play in Full Screen mode, but that function is only
accessible through AppleScript, not through the GUI. All it takes is this
one-liner:

        tell app "QuickTime Player" to present movie 1 scale screen


But of course you can dress it up a bit nicer. See "FullScreen" at my site:
<http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/software/>.


{whoops} I didn't notice the question seems to apply to Windows... Well,
perhaps QT for Windows offers a scripting interface? Or perhaps iTunes for
Windows can play full screen.


--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>

> I have a slideshow in iPhoto with music that I love to watch on the
> full screen. I want to send it on a CD to a friend, so I have saved
> it as a Quicktime movie.

Why not just create a DVD instead? In iPhoto (v5 for me), create your
slideshow just as you'd like it to be, go to the "Share" menu and
select "Send to iDVD".

> [I believe this is a limitation of QuickTime non-Pro, and if your
> recipient has QuickTime Pro, they'll be able to play full-screen. It's
> entirely possible there are other utilities that will do it too.
> -Adam]

I believe this is correct.

On 2/1/06 6:15 PM, "Sander Tekelenburg" <tekelenbeuronet.nl> wrote:

> At 15:51 -0800 UTC, on 2006-01-31, Shirley Jordan wrote:
>
>> I have a slideshow in iPhoto with music that I love to watch on the
>> full screen. I want to send it on a CD to a friend, so I have saved
>> it as a Quicktime movie. It all works fine except it plays in a
>> window rather than the full screen like it does in iPhoto. Is there a
>> setting I am missing, or is it not possible to do what I want. The
>> other party is on a PC, not a Mac.

> {whoops} I didn't notice the question seems to apply to Windows... Well,
> perhaps QT for Windows offers a scripting interface? Or perhaps iTunes for
> Windows can play full screen.

QuickTime Player for Windows only has Half, Normal and Double as view
choices, there's no "[Pro] Full Screen" tease. Apple lists full screen as a
feature of QuickTime Player Pro for Windows.

However, iTunes has played QuickTime movies in full screen since version 4.8
(according to Wikipedia). Here's what to do in iTunes 6 (both platforms):
use File > Open to open the movie, click in the middle of the video to open
it in its own window, right-click (or Ctrl-click on a Mac w/ one button) in
the middle of the video and select Full Screen. Clicking anywhere on the
full screen video will revert it back to the little window pane under the
list of playlists.

It's not as nice as double-clicking a file and I don't like that the video
automatically gets added to the iTunes library database but it works. iTunes
should be able to play anything the installed version of QuickTime can play.

> I have a slideshow in iPhoto with music that I love to watch on the
> full screen. I want to send it on a CD to a friend, so I have saved
> it as a Quicktime movie.

Why not just create a DVD instead? In iPhoto (v5 for me), create your
slideshow just as you'd like it to be, go to the "Share" menu and
select "Send to iDVD".