Full screen Quicktime in Lion with Dual Screens

I noticed the same problem. It seems like putting quicktime full screen turns it into a full screen app, and doesn't just blow up the window. A quick fix is to make your second screen the default one by dragging the menu bar onto it from Display-Arrangement in System Preferences. It's a pain, but at least usable. Or, if you dont mind seeing your desktop background behind your video, you can keep the video in window and View->Fill Screen or Fit to Screen.

This full screen app thing stillprevents you from doing anything else while watching a video...

Yep, I don't know what Apple was thinking to not at least provide us with some preferences on how we want Full Screen apps to handle multiple monitors. It's completely useless as is.

You can get around the Quicktime problem by playing you movies with VLC. It has a full screen mode, but doesn't affect your other monitors.

I just can't believe, with all the new features they popped in there, no one ever said "Hey... What about attached monitors for the professionals?" It shows an out of character lack of forsight on Macs part.

I swear this worked properly in Snow Leopard. It would full screen to whichever monitor it was on.

Not cool, Apple.

I was having the same issue. Instead of using full screen, just use the "Fit to screen" (command 3) option in the view menu. It looks identical on my TV as it did with fullscreen mode in Snow Leopard. I hope it works for you.

Similar to Jared's workaround, if you use HyperDock or BetterSnapTool, you can maximize windows by dragging them to the top edge of the screen. It doesn't black out whatever's behind Quicktime, but if you're willing to set the desktop on the second display to black and center the QT window horizontally, it's visually indistinguishable from the fullscreen behavior we want... Until you access mission control/dashboard/launchpad. :S It's not perfect by a long-shot, but it's something.

I loved Hyperdock back in 10.6, now it's indispensable in Lion until Apple decides to give us a setting/ someone finds a hack. 😟

"Solved"

QuickTime Player 7 PRO (yes - you need to buy pro), has a VIEW->PRESENT MOVIE which allows you to choose which monitors will show a movie, including full screen.

Clarification... the above works UNTIL you change focus outside of Quicktime.

I'm glad I put quotes around Solved.

😟

Here's another workaround...

Apple provided sample code for using the QuickTime Movie framework... I compiled it and included most popular movie types in the .plist. The default window isn't beautiful by a long shot, but when it's fullscreened the only thing visible is the overlayed "play" and "fullscreen" button window, which you can drag to the non-movie display. When you go into dashboard/another fullscreen app there's still an overlay so you can't see the video, but this at least does full screen without disabling your desktop.

Here's a link to the compiled app: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8208380/MyMediaPlayer.app.zip

I only have one mac so I didn't get to test it much, but give it a shot. It's free, at least. 🙂

You solved it!! Just make sure that you click "Remain in full screen when player is inactive"

This will let you click on your other screen, leaving the full window of Quicktime open.

Where exactly is this Preference Panel?

Quicktime Player has no preferences which is pretty ridiculous, imo. There is no Quicktime Preference Panel! I've tried to find this on my system, but no luck.

Ahhhh, this is the Quick Player 7 preferences! It realy helps if you make it crystal clear what you are changing and where.

THANKS.

1. Remove the latest version of Quicktime.

2. Download QuickTime Pro http://store.apple.com/us/product/D3380Z/A $29.95

3. Install QuickTime Pro.

4. Click Preferences.

Or you can download QuickTime 7 (FREE) http://support.apple.com/kb/dl923

Then FIND a password to upgrade it to QuickTime Pro ;o) <------ This is what I did.

The Preferences panel is ONLY on the PRO version and NOT on the newest FREE QuickTime.

Here you can find more info http://www.macworld.com/article/161320/2011/07/lion_quicktime7.html

Solution is simple:

Just drag the quicktime logo you see below across to the other screens. This sets the primary monitor locally within Quicktime. And now you are ready to have the fullscreen experience on which ever screen you like.