Viewing QuickTime Movies in the Player and in the Plugin

1. Launch the QuickTime Player application

2. Open the movie "BWV998_allegro.mov" in the lesson1 folder

3. From the "Window" menu, choose "Show Movie Info" (Command-I). Notice the information that is contained in this window, especially the Source Info (path and filename), tracks, compressors, frame rate, data rate, etc..

4. Explore some of the options from the "Movie" menu. -

-Different sizes for playback, including full screen

-Looped playback and playing back only selection

-Sound and Video Controls

-Get Movie Properties (Command-J) Movie (Annotations, AutoPlay, Controller, Files, General, Size, Time) Video Track (Alternate, Files, Format, Frame Rate, General, Graphics Mode, Layer, Mask, Size) Sound Track (Alternate, Files, Format, General, Volume)

5. Enabling, Extracting, Deleting Tracks (Edit Menu)

6. Understanding the QuickTime Player navigation and controls for selection

The QuickTime Plugin Interface

7. Open Internet Explorer (or your favorite browser) and resize the window so that you drag the movie "BWV998_allegro.mov" from lesson1 folder into the browser. If you browser is configured properly, the QuickTime plugin should load the movie centered within a blank window. Notice the QuickTime plugin controller differs from the controls you have available in the Player.

If your movie appears in the upper left corner in a window of its own, Internet Explorer has control of the .mov format and is displaying the media with its own browser implementation of QuickTime. You can change this preference and return the proper MIME types to QuickTime.

Most importantly, notice the drop-down menu in the lower right hand corner. In addition, you can overdrive audio and elect variable speed playback. Shift-Click volume control Control-Click between the frame advance buttons and carefully slide