Saturday, September 3, 2011

10.7: Quicktime Player playback speed gesture

I came across this when I accidentally moved my finger on my Magic Mouse when playing back a video.


When a video is playing in Quicktime Player X if you swipe with with one finger on the Magic Mouse (or 2 fingers on the Trackpad) the playback speed can be altered.

Swiping from left to right speeds things up; right to left slows things down.

When you swipe the speed is displayed on the top left of the video and the controls popup is replaced with a simple arrow indicator with gradient lines at 2x, 4x and 8x speed up.

The speed change only happens as long as you have your finger on the surface; as soon as you release the playback resumes to 1x speed.

[crarko adds: When I tried this using the Magic Trackpad (with two fingers) what happened is that is would stop playing the video and scroll to a different spot in the timeline. But as with the Window-throwing hint, I'm willing to believe it's me fat-fingering things. Give it a try a ...

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