Quicktime resizing w/ two displays...

[K-Man]

Hey everyone,

I can't remember for the life of me how to do this...

I have 2 displays on my G5. I've been given a very small video to edit to, and I need to resize this thing on my second display. Instead, when I click this thing with any combination of hotkeys, it just jumps back and forth between the two displays. I need it to stay on my secondary display and make it bigger.

Anyone know the answer? Because I can't remember...

Thanks!

-K

[Eric L]

The QT res must be 320x240 and the screen must be set to 640x480 for this to work. No other combination will allow pixel doubling.

[Starcrash]

This is an annoying feature in PT. If you are using only one display, you can resize the QT by pressing ctrl-opt-click (bigger) or ctrl-opt-cmd-click (smaller). If you are using two displays, then this feature is hosed. I always ask for 320x240 movies, but often the editor exports the QT incorrectly in which case it would be better to maually resize it to fill most of the screen rather than double it and have a big flap hanging into the edit window.

[Don Barto]

I also use LE and two monitors, but on a PowerBook.

The way I adjust movie size is by simply opening the movie in QuickTime, going to the "Windows" pulldown and selcting "Show movie Properties." Then, from the resuling dialog box, I highlight the video track and press the "Visual Setting" pushbutton (Still with me — I know thias is perhaps time-consuming, but it will let you do exactly what you need to do). On the Visual Settings dialog box you will see a "transformation" box and a way to change scaled size. Just change the movie size to whatever you wish by typing-in the numbers you want (320 x 240 — or any other combination) and doing a "save." Now, whenever you open the movie — in Pro Tools or in anything else — it will be sized to however you saved it in QuickTime. Don't worry, the save is very quick, regardless of the file size. By de-selecting the "Preserve Aspect Ratio" checkbox in the Transformations box, you can aditionally take a "squashed" movie (something that is actually of a 16 x 9 aspect ratio but that has for whatever reason been saved as 4 x 3) and make it play as 16 x 9 again.

I know it's not a quick-key combo, but it's easy to do and will give you precisely what you want. I do this all of the time on a PowerBook and would assume it works the same way with other video cards. But then you know what they say about "assume..."

dB

[DT Audio]

This is an annoying feature in PT. If you are using only one display, you can resize the QT by pressing ctrl-opt-click (bigger) or ctrl-opt-cmd-click (smaller). If you are using two displays, then this feature is hosed.

Yep. It's one of the many things I dislike about using two monitors.