Apple’s QuickTime is the go-to Mac OS X app for video playback, but there’s more to QuickTime Player than meets the eye. You can rewind and fast-forward movies, increase the audio level beyond the slider limit, and even scrub frame by frame through the movie like you can in Final Cut Pro! Check out these 15 useful and largely hidden keyboard shortcuts for QuickTime Player, they are sure to improve your QuickTime movie viewing experience… and you’ll probably learn something new!
For what it’s worth, these tricks should work in all versions of QuickTime. If you notice any changes or differences in modern vs older versions, be sure to let us know in the comments below.
Let’s get started learning some awesome Quicktime key tricks:
QuickTime Keyboard Shortcuts
Spacebar – Play and pause video playback
J – Rewind movie, you can J multiple times to rewind the movie faster
K – Pauses the movie
L – Fast forward within the movie, with audio, again you can tap L multiple times to fast forward in the movie at a faster pace
Hold down K and tap J or L – allows you to scrub the video in slow motion, viewing in either rewind or forward frame by frame
I – Sets the “In” or beginning point of the selection
O – Set the “Out” or end point of the selection
Option-Left Arrow – Go to the beginning of the selection of the movie
Option-Right Arrow – Go to end of the selection of the movie
Shift-double-click Command-Left Arrow – Playback the movie in reverse
Option-Up Arrow – Increase maximum audio volume beyond slider level limit
Option-Down Arrow – Mute audio
Up Arrow – Increase volume level
Down Arrow – Decrease volume level
. – pause video playback, using in combination with the Spacebar you can single in on a single frame quite easily
Update: Reader Austin W. noted that many of the above QuickTime shortcuts are not working in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, he has created the following list of working QuickTime Shortcuts for 10.6. Thanks Austin!
QuickTime Keyboard Shortcuts for 10.6 Snow Leopard
Spacebar – Play and pause video playback
Command-Left Arrow – Rewind movie, you can press multiple times to rewind the movie faster
Command-Right Arrow – Fast forward within the movie, with audio, again you can tap multiple times to fast forward in the movie at a faster pace
Left and Right Arrows (With no modifier keys) – allows you to scrub the video in slow motion, viewing in either rewind or forward frame by frame
Option-Left Arrow – Go to the beginning of the selection of the movie
Option-Right Arrow – Go to end of the selection of the movie
Option-Up Arrow – Increase volume to maximum volume
Option-Down Arrow – Mute audio
Up Arrow – Increase volume level
Down Arrow – Decrease volume level
Know any other awesome QuickTime tricks? Let us know in the comments!
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