QuickTime technology has been around for quite a while, and with the newly named QuickTime X Player, you have the most fully featured and useful version ever. In the past, upgrading to QuickTime Pro gave you access to very basic editing capabilities such as trimming your video, adding or removing video and audio tracks, and the ability to export to various formats such as MPEG-4.
QuickTime Player has much more powerful features, including the ability to create movie and screen recordings as well as export video to iTunes, MobileMe and YouTube.
QuickTime X Player has undergone a fairly significant visual overhaul. In addition to the new icon for the application, the brushed steel console from previous versions of QuickTime has been replaced with a minimal black user interface. In fact, the entire console for the player has technically disappeared. Player controls are now embedded into the movie, and placing your cursor outside of the player hides the entire interface
The controls in the QuickTime X Player are similar to those found in most CD and DVD players and should therefore be familiar to you. However, there are a few extra features that you may also fi nd useful.
1. Locate your sl04lessons folder. Double-click the BigBuckBunny_640x360.mov file to open it in QuickTime X Player. When the movie opens, the controls appear inside your movie. Click and drag the controller bar to the top of the player. You can move this controller anywhere you like, however, it is always inside the player frame.
2. Press the Play button. The controls remain onscreen. Place your cursor outside the player, and both the controls and the QuickTime X Player title bar disappear.
3. Press the spacebar to pause the movie, and the controller reappears. Press the right arrow key on your keyboard to advance the movie one frame at a time. Press and hold the right arrow key down to advance through the frames continuously. This also works with the left arrow key, only in reverse.
4. Press the Fast Forward button, and the movie begins to play at twice the speed. Press the Fast Forward button again to play at 4x speed. Press the Fast Forward button one more time to play at 8x speed.
5. Click and drag the playhead beneath the player controls to locate a specific point in the movie. Notice that to the left of the controls, the time counter displays how much time has passed, and to the right there is a display of how much time is left.
QuickTime X Player recording capabilities
New to QuickTime X Player is the ability to record movie, audio, and screen recordings. These features transform QuickTime X Player into an application that creates content rather than just playing it back.
Creating movie recordings
This exercise relies on access to a built-in iSight camera or external webcam. You can quickly and easily create videos using QuickTime X Player if you have a web or video camera connected to your system. This is made even easier if you have a laptop or iMac model that has a web camera pre-installed. If you have used the Photo Booth or iChat applications in previous versions of OS X, you may be familiar with the concept of built-in video recording.
1. With QuickTime X Player open, choose File > New Movie Recording. If you have one of the iSight-enabled systems or have connected a webcam or video camera, you see a preview of your image in the Movie Recording window. In this case, you are using the built-in camera in your MacBook.
2. Click on the Recording options menu in the controller bar. Here you have options to choose which device to use for video and audio input; for example, this would be relevant if you had a built-in iSight camera and a webcam connected. For audio input, you could use either your system’s built-in microphone or another input source such as a USB microphone.
3. Select the Maximum quality option. You have three options for the quality of your videos; changing these values affects the size of your final video file.
4. By default, new movies are saved in the current user’s Movies folder. You may designate another folder to save movies to by selecting the Choose option, navigating to the folder, and pressing Choose again.
5. Below the Record button are your recording levels. Clap your hands loudly or speak loudly; if your microphone is picking up a signal, you see the levels respond. In the top left corner of the controller is the playthrough slider. Click and drag this slider carefully to about the middle of the control to determine the volume of the external playback. In general, you do not want playthrough on if you are using a microphone, as it will likely cause audio feedback. However, because you have the option of connecting the line-in from a musical instrument, for example, this control would allow you to hear the instrument as you play.
6. Press the Record button, and QuickTime X Player begins to capture video. Note that the counter on the left tallies the time, and on the right, the file size begins to increase as the recording continues. Press the Record button.
7. Press the Stop button. After a few moments, the completed movie appears in QuickTime X Player, ready for playback. Audio recording works the exact same way as video recording: both result in a QuickTime.mov file. In the case of an audio recording, you simply have no video track.
8. Double-click the hard drive icon on your Desktop, then navigate to the current user’s Movies folder. The fi rst movie recording you make is given the generic filename Movie Recording.mov. Additional movie recordings will add successive numbers to the filename: Movie Recording 2.mov, Movie Recording 3.mov, and so on.
9. Double-click the file Movie Recording.mov to view your movie. When you are done, close the file.
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