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TUAW Tip: QuickTime playback shortcuts
This morning, I received a desperate letter from a person to remain nameless. "Quick!" it said, "Tell me a keyboard shortcut to mark IN on the timeline in QT Pro from where the playhead is parked. Having to twiddle those stupid triangles is frustrating beyond measure." Well, secret correspondent who shall be henceforth known as "V", here is a quick reference for you. I threw this together in short order, so if anyone has additional playback shortcuts they want to throw into the mix, please do so. If you've got a long commute, why not download Apple's QuickTime 7 Guide (pdf) and go straight to the source?
Space bar. Pause/play.
Right-Arrow. Move one frame forward in time.
Left-Arrow. Move one frame back in time.
Up-Arrow. Increase volume.
Down-Arrow. Decrease volume.
Command-A. Select the entire track.
Command-B. Select nothing. This has the very useful side effect of moving the selection triangles to the current location of the playhead.
Shift-Left Arrow. Move the left selection triangle to the playhead.
Shift-Right Arrow. Move the right selection triangle to the playhead.
Command-Left Arrow. Play in reverse.
Command-Right Arrow. Play.
Option-Left Arrow. Move left to the next selection triangle, or if there is none to the start of the movie.
Option-Right Arrow. Move right to the next selection triangle, or if there is none to the end of the movie.
Command-T. Play selection only.
Command-L. Loop playback.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jtbandes said 7:10PM on 6-13-2007
Shift + double-click. Play movie backwards.
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KeynoteKen said 7:29PM on 6-13-2007
And don't forget the really cool JKL controls.
Press J to scrub backwards, k to stop, and l to scrub forwards.
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Dub said 8:22PM on 6-13-2007
Shift- Up Arrow. Makes the volume go to 11.
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Sam said 11:26PM on 6-13-2007
Cmd-Left-Arrow - Plays backward, even with sound. Very cool.
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PSM said 11:59PM on 6-13-2007
Cool, thanks for these. Been using QT Pro for years to make quick edits to sound files, and have wondered the same thing myself, but never bothered to research it.
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Chris said 2:24AM on 6-14-2007
I do some rough editing with QT Pro. To cut and paste I always drag the window width of the audio clip across my whole screen. Since a few updates everytime I paste something into the clip, the window width shrinks automaticly to the QT standard width. Does anybody know why this happens or how to prevent this?
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Clarence said 6:16AM on 6-14-2007
Hi Erica,
I would like to have a chat with you regarding this website : http://web.mac.com/jean.luc.michel/iWeb/Apple%20passion/Welcome.html
Best regards,
CM
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orijinal said 10:43PM on 6-16-2007
I think the person who asked the question wanted to know:
pressing "I" to move the "in marker" to the current playhead position, and
pressing "O" to move the "out marker" to the playhead position.
it's really handy and i use it all the time.
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