I Option click the QuickTime Player Fast Forward button to speed up playback a smidgeon. Open a video into QuickTime Player. QuickTime Player is in the Applications folder on all new Macs.
Quicktime Player 7 supports older media formats, such as QTVR, interactive QuickTime movies, and MIDI files on Snow Leopard. It also accepts QuickTime 7 Pro registration codes, which turn on QuickTime Pro functions. QuickTime Player 7 will be installed in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
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If necessary, move your mouse over the video itself to call up the Controls. Click the Play/Pause button or press the Spacebar to start and stop the video. Click the Fast Forward or Rewind button once to double the playback or rewind speed. Click it again to change to 4x speed and again to change to 8x speed. If you click the button again the video will go back to 2x speed. Click Pause and then Play to revert to 1x speed. Or hold down the Command key and press the left or right arrow keys on the keyboard for the same effects.
Each time you change speed the speed is displayed at top left of the video window, with an arrow showing direction of play. Naturally, both audio and video speed up. Hold down the Option key while clicking the Fast Forward or Rewind buttons (or using Command + arrow key) to instead increment the speed by a tenth of a point.
For example, 4x becomes 4.1x, 4.2x and so on. Use the left or right arrow keys without the Command key to step through the video frame by frame, but without sound.
The right arrow key moves the video forwards, the left arrow key moves it in reverse. Press and hold the arrow keys to speed up the frame by frame stepping. These are simple little tricks, but they can be really handy for speeding through a long-winded video or having the time to really analyse the detail in a single frame. Please let us know how this Tip helped you. To leave a comment if you’re reading this by email or RSS feed please visit the Tip at the MacTips website.
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