• The first icon (far left) sets the sound volume of the movie
· a pop-up slider appears when the button is clicked.
• The next icon toggles between playing or pausing the movie.
• The grey slider bar in the centre represents the length of the movie
· clicking on the bar jumps to that part of the movie.
• The slider indicates the current position in the movie
· dragging the slider ‘flips’ through the corresponding frames of the movie,
· dragging the slider while holding down shift selects the corresponding portion of the movie.
• To the right of the slider bar are the step backward and step forward buttons
· step backward moves to the previous frame of the movie,
· step forward moves to the next frame of the movie.
• The last icon (far right) is the size box
· the size box resizes the movie window.
QuickTime Movie Controller Tips
• Volume
· press shift while clicking the volume icon to increase the volume by up to three times,
· press option while clicking the volume icon to toggle the sound on and off,
· press up arrow to increase the volume and down arrow to decrease it.
• Play/Pause
· press shift while clicking the play button to select the movie as you play,
· press space or return to toggle between playing or pausing the movie,
· press command-right arrow to play the movie forwards (if the movie speed palette is open, the movie will play in the direction selected in the palette).
· press command-left arrow to play the movie backwards (if the movie speed palette is open, the movie will play in the direction selected in the palette).
· double-clicking a movie will play it, and a single-click will pause it.
• Slider Bar
· press shift while clicking in two different positions in the slider bar to select the portion of the movie between the two positions,
· press shift while dragging in the slider bar to select a portion of the movie,
· press delete to clear the selected portion of the movie or the current frame.
• Step Buttons
· press shift while clicking on a step button to add a frame to the selection,
· press option while clicking on the step forward button to jump to the last frame of the movie,
· press option while clicking on the step backward button to jump to the first frame of the movie,
· press control while clicking on a step button to display a mini-slider which lets you increase the speed of the movie by up to 2.5 times, either forwards or backwards,
· press left arrow to step a frame backwards,
· press right arrow to step a frame forwards.
• Size Box
· press option while dragging the size box to size the movie in or out at regular intervals
— i.e. double, normal, half, third and quarter sizes,
· press shift to maintain the length-to-width aspect ratio (in QuickTime 2.5 and earlier),
· press shift to disregard the length-to-width aspect ratio (in QuickTime 3.0 and later).