Enable True Full Screen in QuickTime’s Preferences
One if my favorite things about video on the iTouch is the ability it gives you to resize standard aspect (2:3) videos so that they’ll fill up the entire screen of the device. But I’m guessing that a lot of people don’t know that it’s also possible to do this in QuickTime Player on your Mac.
Open up a standard aspect ratio vid in QT and then jump into preferences. Under the Playback tab you’ll find the option to expand your vid for a total full screen effect. As on the iPhone, you do lose a little off the top and bottom of your video, but I’ve never found that to be too distracting. Set the second menu to ‘Fill Screen’ for standard movies and you’re set.
Once you’ve enabled true full-screen, however, you can now toggle it on and off during playback by hitting the little expand button in QT’s floating control panel, just as in the iPhone (it’s the second to last button in the panel). This is much more convenient if you momentarily want to check if you’re missing anything by making the most of your wide screen monitor.
