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Override QuickTime Player's maximum playback volume Apps
Many times I'm listening to a QuickTime movie with headphones and the volume isn't loud enough, even with the system volume maxed out and QT set to maximum. And with the system sound maxed, every other system sound blasts in my ears.

I found this little tidbit by accident ... choose Movie -> Get Movie Properties. In the new window that opens, select Soundtrack on the left pop-up menu and Volume on the right. From there, you can increase the gain by dragging the green bar in the Volume section, as seen in the image at left (click on it for the larger version).

I'd love to be able to do this in DVD Player, too, because I have trouble hearing some DVDs.

[robg adds: This appears to be how you can effectively match yesterday's hint about doubling the playback volume in browser-embedded QuickTime controllers. I've been using QT Player, as well as the Movie and Soundtrack settings, for quite a while and I'd never thought to try clicking in the empty area of the Volume box...]
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Playback volume keystroke
Authored by: josephaw on Nov 02, '04 09:33:38AM

Press SHIFT and Up Arrow a bunch of times when playing a movie to make it louder as well.
Joe



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Playback volume keystroke - COOL
Authored by: progosk on Nov 03, '04 05:40:31AM

the method in the hint is way too long to do every time (though you could re-save the file with the over-maxed volume, except that resaving turns everything into a mov, and sometimes there are sound problems, from divx encoded avi's in particular)- but THIS (shift+arrow up) is a cool solution - shame that qt doesn't give any graphic feedback confirming that you're raising the volume beyond max, but it sure works (10.3.4, qtpro 6.5.2)!

the only other solution i'd found was seriously unelegant: open the file in safari and so be able to use the qtplugin volume-raising function mentioned in the hint yesterday...

thanx!

p



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Override QuickTime Player's maximum playback volume
Authored by: petar on Nov 02, '04 10:03:02AM

Hm...looks like the hint only works for QuickTime Pro, I just tried the same movie on my friends QT pro and on my QT stadard, the volume option only showed-up in the Pro version.



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Override QuickTime Player's maximum playback volume
Authored by: missinglina on Nov 02, '04 10:13:46AM

I have this problem in iTunes. The volume of the music just doesn't seem nearly as loud as the volume of the system sounds, so I know the speakers can be pushed way more. I have to turn down the system sounds way down when I crank up iTunes. Is there some secret I'm missing? Does anyone else experience this? I have the sound enhance clicked on and right in the halfway point, sound check is clicked, and the equalizer is usually set to rock.

Thanks for any input.



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Override QuickTime Player's maximum playback volume
Authored by: VirtualWolf on Nov 03, '04 07:49:39AM
Do you have Sound Check on? That lowers the volume of all the songs quite a lot. (As well as clips horribly in some songs.)

I'd recommend Volume Logic...it has its own Sound Check equivalent, but doesn't clip like Sound Check does. It's also got a better-sounding and more adjustable version of the Sound Enhancer too. I love it.

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Override QuickTime Player's maximum playback volume
Authored by: missinglina on Nov 04, '04 03:34:07PM

Thanks a lot! I'll take sound check out and will see if that's what's going on. Thanks for the tip on volume logic!



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Override QuickTime Player's maximum playback volume
Authored by: purplee2 on Nov 02, '04 04:44:52PM
This hint has a misleading title. It would be more accurate to say that you can override a movie's volume. Or, to be even more accurate yet, a Soundtrack's volume in a movie. This volume increase is saveable and remains with the movie, independent of QuickTime Player. Open the same movie in another app and the volume will remain loud.

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Nice hint, but...
Authored by: GORDYmac on Nov 02, '04 10:45:12AM

...what will you do when your hearing goes completely away? I have never felt the need to max out the volume on my macs, going back to 1993--especially with headphones.

This isn't the safest hint. Honestly, you may need to have your hearing checked.



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Helps when sitting across the room
Authored by: the_webmaestro on Nov 02, '04 03:24:47PM

Occasionally I'll set my Powerbook up to watch a DVD (anyone know how to turn *that* volume up like this?). Unfortunately, as loud as my PowerBook is when I'm sitting next to it, doesn't help when I'm in bed... I don't do the 'double' your volume trick often, but it's nice to have it available when you're trying to show other people stuff.

Speaking of which, know a good ear doctor? What?

;-)

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Father of Jeremy Logan



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Helps when sitting across the room
Authored by: wsdr on Nov 02, '04 05:23:52PM

No tricks, but Audio Hijack does this very well-- doubling the volume output of a DVD. I have a set of Apple speakers that came with my Cube. If I use them on my PowerBook, the volume is far lower (than with the Cube). Audio Hijack helps to overcome this problem.



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Override QuickTime Player's maximum playback volume
Authored by: billbobdole on Nov 02, '04 11:57:43AM

I've found this to be very useful when converting .ac3's to AAC - many of my dvd's have very low volume AC3's, so i give it +200% before the mpeg-4 audio conversion.



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Override QuickTime Player's maximum playback volume
Authored by: nockely on Nov 02, '04 05:55:13PM

Just out of interest, I can recall this being a part of QuickTime right from version 2, where you used to use 'Get info' instead of 'Get Movie Properties'. A useful little feature, although it does increase the chances of audio distortion.



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