External monitoring of footage?

I'm running Soundtrack pro 3
Is it possible to monitor the video on a external monitor, or even just increase the size of the video in Soundtrack pro 3. Previously I was able to just drag the video to what ever size i wanted it to be, but i now seem limited at resizing it
Niel

Go to Preferences>Video Out and set that how you want, based on your system. If you set it desktop preview, you can go big on your monitor by using the key command Control V and use escape to get out of it.
HTH.

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