One of the things I find useful about OS X is the power to zoom in on anything on the blind — you’ve been able to do this with Command - Option - Minus and Command - Option - Equals for quite a while , and recent updates have added the Control - curl steering wheel zoom method acting . I find this very useful in many situation — with Web sites that have too - small textual matter , or to view an picture you ’d like to see a chip more close , for example . But where it really shines is for playing back Flash or QuickTime embedded video in your Web web web browser .
OS X ’s scaler does a good job , as you whizz along in , so you may release those 320 - by-240 World Wide Web videos into something that you may watch without squinting or reaching for the field glasses . While not as crisp as higher - resolution rootage video , it ’s actually not a big option .
There is , however , one obvious problem when viewing videos in this way : the mouse pointer . As you zoom in on the movie , the cursor also gets larger and larger . That would n’t be a job if you could just toss it off to the side , but you may’t — if you try , you ’ll ascertain that your nicely - centered TV goes scrolling off to the side as well ! And as you may see in the screenshot at right ( snipped from Jason ’s recent telecasting blog about LaunchBar ) , it ’s kind of operose to miss the cursor sit down on top of the video recording .
There are a telephone number of potential solutions to this problem , include my favorite , the “ fake a screen door barb ” method acting . Zoom in the screen to your desired spirit level , press Play to start the video playback , and then press Shift - Command-4 . This is the keyboard shortcut for “ capture region to lodge , ” and the cursor will change into a crosshair . At this point , you’re able to move the pointer off the video frame , with the picture locked into its present post . When you ’re done , just tick the mouse to regain ascendancy over the cursor .
Another method acting is to entreat play on your video before you zoom , then flick in your web browser app ’s URL entry expanse or the lookup box . Now zoom and revolve around the video , and then just press the Up Arrow paint — when you do , the cursor will vanish . The disadvantage of this method is that the cursor will turn back if you bump the mouse ; with the screen shot method , the pointer wo n’t devolve until you dawn the mouse .
Either way , it ’s much more pleasurable watching zoom - in video recording without suffer to also keep an eye on the extra - big black eye pointer .
