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QuickTime 7.5 finally added feature that all Final Cut Pro (FCP) users will enjoy: JKL transport controls. Just like in FCP, the J, K, and L keys control the playback of your video: J is backward, K is stop, and L is forward.

Tapping the J or L keys multiple times increases the speed of playback. Holding J+K or K+L plays back in slow motion.
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Control QuickTime like Final Cut Pro
Authored by: Roquentin on Aug 01, '08 09:10:13AM

Now if there were just a way to skip forward or backward in X-second intervals, I might finally be able to ditch VLC. On the other hand, I'd still need a way to force playback in various aspect ratios (16:9, 5:4, 4:3, etc.), too. Oh, well.



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Control QuickTime like Final Cut Pro
Authored by: regulus on Aug 02, '08 06:55:13AM
This is what applescript is for. Applescript adds functionality that isn't enabled in the normal interface. For example, to skip forward a certain amount of time you could use the following. Change (10) to whatever seconds you want and you can even use negative numbers. Just use some hot-key type program and assign the script to a key combination and you're all set. Applescript can help with the movie size stuff too. I suggest you go to the applescript forum at macscripter (http://bbs.macscripter.net/viewforum.php?id=2) and search or post some questions.

tell application "QuickTime Player"
tell document 1
set ts to time scale
set ct to current time
set nt to ct + ts * (10)
set current time to nt
end tell
end tell


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Control QuickTime like Final Cut Pro
Authored by: Roquentin on Aug 05, '08 01:20:21PM

Yeah, I know you can do it in AppleScript, but the responsiveness of that method isn't even in the ballpark (same city, even) of what VLC can do with its built-in skip-ahead method, and the J-K-L scrubbing doesn't come close either.



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Control QuickTime like Final Cut Pro
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 02, '08 07:20:10PM

There's a way to force different aspect-ratios in Quicktime (Pro?) - open a video, press cmd+j (or Window > Show Movie Properties). Then select the video track, and "visual settings", and uncheck "preserve aspect ratio" and enter a new display size..

..okay it's not quite as simple as "VLC's Video > Aspect Ratio > 16:9", but it's.. possible (There are also lots of interesting things you can do in the video properties window, like extracting audio tracks, boosting volume, flipping video and such)



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Control QuickTime like Final Cut Pro
Authored by: Roquentin on Aug 05, '08 01:22:32PM

"Not quite as simple" is right. The VLC method is resolution-independent and allows me to quickly resize the playback window but maintain the same aspect ratio.



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Control QuickTime like Final Cut Pro
Authored by: Anonymous on Aug 01, '08 10:39:34AM

yawn only been waiting for this for 3.5 years ( when i first started using FCP).....quicktime player has just become a bit of a car crash of a program....i really like the new DVD player in leopard which can do scaling of pictures etc....why of why is quicktime still so backward.

ps use VLC most of the time as well as it scrubs better than QT IMHO
oh yes another yawn...just for good measure.....



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Control QuickTime like Final Cut Pro
Authored by: QuickTimeKirk on Aug 02, '08 07:51:57AM

Actually the keyboard shortcuts (JKL) for scrubbing were included in version 7.3 (quite a while ago).



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Authored by: Swift on Aug 02, '08 09:38:38AM

One more yawn, please. I want to care even less about what you say.

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