Full Screen Quicktime?

[Michael Grant]

I'm trying to embed a quicktime movie that is a screen recording in
Powerpoint 2004. I notice that on Windows, PPT has an option to play
movies full screen. This seems to be missing from the mac version.
Does anyone know how to do this? I can't believe they left this out!!

Other issues -

- I want to be able to scale the video poster image down so it fits on
the slide, but when I launch the movie, I want it to playback at full
resolution and full screen. Otherwise the video looks like crap
because it is a screen recording. How do I do this? I can't even do it
on Windows. When you scale down the video size to fit on the slide,
and then select the movie to play full screen, it plays it back at the
scaled down size BUT AT FULL SCREEN!!! I want it to playback at its
original size.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

Maybe it would be best to hyperlink to the movie file, then use
QuickTime's menu to change the screen to full size.

Another option that might be worth investigating is to use an
AppleScript to launch the movie and to tell QuickTime to play at full
screen. I think you can launch AppleScripts from Visual Basic macros in
PowerPoint.

-Jim

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Another option that might be worth investigating is to use an

AppleScript to launch the movie and to tell QuickTime to play at full
screen. I think you can launch AppleScripts from Visual Basic macros in
PowerPoint.

Sure can, and from versions of Officed back to 98. This launches a HelloWorld
script on my desktop, for example.

Sub CallScript()
MacScript("Macintosh HD:Users:Steveesktop:HelloWorld")
End Sub

Obviously, it gets more complicated if you don't know where the script file
lives or what user will be running it.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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