[Tex/LaTex] Beamer : Changing font size in notes when using \setbeameroption{show notes on second screen}

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I'm using Beamer with \setbeameroption{show notes on second screen} to add notes for each slide. I'd like to change the font size of the text in the notes so I can fit more text on the page.

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You can define font size for notes with \setbeamerfont{note page}{size=\tiny}, default size is \small.

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[Tex/LaTex] Beamer, notes on the second screen and media9 problem

There are two problems with your example:

As Beamer frames have default left and right margins, a video resized to the width of \pagewidth will extend beyond the right edge of the frame into the second screen which is reserved for the notes. This is not a media9 specific issue as any box with this horizontal dimension would behave similarly.

If you really want to have a video box filling up the whole frame it must be centred within the frame. The macro \centerline{...} is an option.
The beamer option show notes on second screen tries to copy a rescaled version of the video into the thumbnail image at the top right corner of the notes screen. A video box is an interactive PDF element similar to a hyperlink. However, rescaling of such elements does not work for technical reasons. See section 58 of the PGF manual for details.

Therefore, repeating the video on the notes screen must be suppressed. This can be done using the [typeset second] frame option and by enabling the beamer option second mode text on second screen.

Here is a possible solution:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{media9}
\usepackage{pgfpages}

\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen}
\setbeameroption{second mode text on second screen}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
Bla, bla. 
\note{This is shown on the right.}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[typeset second]
\only<second:0>{\centerline{%
  \includemedia[%
    height=\paperheight,
    width=\paperwidth,
    addresource=random.mp4,
    flashvars={
      flv=random.mp4
     &autoplay=1
    },
    activate=pageopen
  ]{}{player_flv_maxi.swf}
}}  
\note{Note that the notes screen does not include the video. See section 85 of pgfmanual.pdf.}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
Some more words.
\note{This is shown on the right.}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Beamer notes “show notes on second screen” option does not work

The preamble should be:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}

\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen}

i.e. pgfpages rather than pdfpages

See the Beamer User Guide sections 19.6 and 22.

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