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Opened by clicking the Now Playing tab, this is the RealPlayer video, picture, and Visualization feature presentation area.

Control Overlay

When you move your mouse pointer over a presentation, a control overlay appears around the presentation area. Use it to control aspects of the presentation such as its size and playback speed or to do more with the clip.

Resize

The Resize Frame lets you increase or decrease the presentation area's size. Grab the resize handle in the lower right corner and drag the Resize Frame to the desired size. The presentation area's size (in %) appears in the upper left corner.

You also get a selection of resize options:

Resize option

Description

Size

1x Resizes the Now Playing screen to 100% of the original video content size.

2x Resizes the Now Playing screen to 200% of the original video content size.

Fits video to available space.

Stretch

Changes the width of the video in the Now Playing screen.

Normal maintains the source aspect ratio.

Narrow is 4:3

Wide is 16:9

Extra Wide is 2.35:1

full screen buttonFullscreen

Changes mode to Full Screen Theater.  The image area fills the monitor screen. A toolbar appears at the bottom. The toolbox disappears after a few seconds, but reappears when you move the mouse.

Tasks

Task button

Description

Share

Sends a link to the internet location of the currently loaded clip. For clips with an associated URLUniform Resource Locator. This is the complete address that tells a browser or RealPlayer where to get the information to show or play, and how to interpret that information. (For example: www.real.com/thankyou.rm), click one of the Share icons and follow the steps. Clips without an associated URL can be uploaded.

Trim

Opens the clip in RealPlayer Trimmer.

Copy to

Copies the clip to the selected device if the device is connected to your computer. The clip is converted if necessary.

Convert

Opens the clip in RealPlayer Converter.

Change Visualization Images

When viewing the Visualization feature, click back button or forward button to cycle through the different Visualization images.

See Also

Video Options After Viewing

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