YouTube Viewfinding

Zoom, rotate & crop YouTube videos

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Review: Good - script works

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Posted: 17.03.2025

This script is incredible! Before this, I had to either download YouTube videos and use PotPlayer to zoom/pan on my PC or switch to my phone. Both were incredibly annoying. I’ve been wishing for something like this forever, and finally, it’s here. I truly appreciate the effort that went into creating it.

By the way, I can’t seem to open the configuration in Tampermonkey. Any idea?

ctl2Author
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Posted: 17.03.2025

Thanks for letting me know you appreciate it, means a lot!

On a YouTube vid page, open up your browser developer tools and enter this into your console:

document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keydown', {code: 'KeyX'}));
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keydown', {code: 'AltLeft'}));

That should open a config menu for you. From there you can change the "Configure" keybind. Hopefully that will get it working

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Posted: 03.04.2025

Hey, sorry for getting back to you so late! I finally had a chance to give this a proper go today. I even set up a totally fresh browser profile with just Tampermonkey, just to make sure nothing else was interfering. But yeah, still no luck. The config menu just won't pop up whether I use the shortcut or the console commands you gave me. The weird thing is, it seems like something happens, 'cause after trying the shortcut, I can't even click anywhere on the YouTube screen anymore. Makes me really wonder if the menu's opening up hidden somewhere and blocking everything?

ctl2Author
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Posted: 03.04.2025

Damn. I'd really love to know why that's happening. No doubt it's happening for other people as well. Would you be willing to do a screen share over Teams or Discord or something to help me figure it out?

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