Even though QuickTime Player is designed to play video clips and audio files, it has several added sleeves. Thus, depending upon your requirement, you can adopt them to effectively make use of your QuickTime app. And here, you can find 7 highly useful features of QuickTime player, if you wish to go beyond the basics.
- Use QuickTime controls
Even if it looks like only the video is visible (along with a typical traffic light control present at the top left of the screen) during a video playback.
You can move the cursor over the video to find few basic playback controls like increase or decrease the volume using the slider, resume and pause the video playback, reverse or fast forward via clicks etc.
- Use Playhead controls
Underneath above list of control options, you can discover a diamond shaped gray button. And, it is the Playhead control key. It indicates the current playback position along the movie, video or audio.
You can jump to the desired location by rapidly moving the Playhead (either to left or right). And, you can know the elapsed as well left over time of the video via the values present on either side of the Playhead.
- Use Show Clips
If you are searching a specific scene but you are unable to find it even via chapter markers, then Show Clips can be useful for you.
Just navigate to View menu and opt Show Clips option. This swaps the previously learned control overlaps with the simpler one. Also, it provides you a plenty of thumbnails alongside the bottom screen.
And, this control guide will not vanish even after the cursor rests or it moves off the video. Thus, it is the ever beneficial control monitor to find something instantly. Also, you can easily get rid of it just by hitting Done key.
- Use subtitles
If your video file has a subtitle, then you can turn on Subtitles and select Subtitles or select the video’s Language via View tab. Once, subtitle s enabled, you will be able to see icons on the right side of the video playback controls.
You can also navigate via chapter markers via same method using keyboard shortcuts or icon located at the Playback Control.
- Record videos QuickTime and iSight camera
QuickTime allows you to record video clips using your Mac’s iSight (FaceTime) camera. To do it,
Go to File, Select New Movie Recording and hit the big red record button to shot. You can see an estimated size of the video file at the lower right of the control bar, during the record. This is really helpful if you are willing to email the clip as several servers keep an eye on the size of the file we send.
- Record New Audio
Instead of New Movie Recording, you can opt for New Audio Recording to create a new audio clip. Next, hit the same big red button, which appears in the tiny pop-up that has limited control options.
Also, New Screen Recording option is available and it allows you to record what is being displayed on your system screen. You can decide, whether to record entire screen or only a portion of it.
- Sharing video clips
Sharing is simply amazing in QuickTime app. Whether you wish to share a specific video/audio clip that you have created yourself or that you have opened within the QuickTime; but just one click completes your work.
There is a Share option available at the right side of playback control. You can also accomplish Sharing job from via File menu. But, any option you use, you can’t edit the file that you share.
Note: Sometimes, corruptions in files like MOV, AVI, MP4 etc. takes away the pleasure of video itself. In those times, you can make use of inbuilt options of QuickTime, VLC etc. and fix video clips. If you cannot manually do it then try an effective tool to repair MOV, MP4, MP3, etc.
Conclusion:
QuickTime has a handful of options than what we know or think. If you learn all those extended techniques available in QuickTime, then you can experience a splendid video playback.
