• Displays a window, similar to the one shown below, containing information about the active movie.
 
· Normal Duration is the length of the movie if played at normal speed.
· Current Duration is the length of the movie when played at the current speed chosen in the movie speed palette.
· Normal Size is the movie’s natural window size.
· Current Size is the movie’s current window size.
· Data Size is the size of the movie’s data if saved as self-contained.
· File Size is the movie file’s current size on disk. This may be smaller than Data Size if the movie is not completely self-contained.
· Normal Data Rate is the amount of movie data being processed per second if played at normal speed.
· Current Data Rate is the amount of movie data being processed per second when played at the current speed chosen in the movie speed palette.
· Colour Depth is the monitor setting that the movie is optimised for. If “Set Monitor to Best Depth” is turned on, the screen’s colour depth is set to this depth (or the closest alternative).
· Number of Tracks is the number of separate tracks in the movie. This includes video, sound, MIDI and others.
· Number of Frames is the number of frames (or pictures) in the movie. This may take a few seconds to calculate, depending on the length of the movie.
· Normal Frame Rate is the number of frames being displayed per second if played at normal speed.
· Current Frame Rate is the number of frames being displayed per second when played at the current speed chosen in the movie speed palette.
Loop
• Plays the active movie in a continuous loop
— When the movie reaches the end, it restarts from the beginning.
Loop Back and Forth
• Plays the active movie in an oscillating loop
— When the movie reaches the end, it plays backwards towards the beginning,
— When the movie reaches the beginning, it plays forwards towards the end.
Play Selection Only
• Plays only the selected portion of the active movie
— To select part of a movie, hold down shift as you drag within the movie controller,
— Play Selection Only also works with Loop and Loop Back and Forth.
Half Size
• Halves the window size of the active movie
— Half Size can be chosen multiple times to reduce the window even further,
— Half Size also works with sound-only movies.
Normal Size
• Reverts the window size of the active movie to normal size
— Normal Size also works with sound-only movies.
Double Size
• Doubles the window size of the active movie
— Double Size can be chosen multiple times to enlarge the window even further,
— Double Size also works with sound-only movies.
Fill Screen
• Scales the window size of the active movie to fill the main screen
— Fill Screen also works with sound-only movies.
Go To Poster Frame
• Moves to the poster frame of the active movie
— the poster frame is the picture used for the preview in the open dialog.
Set Poster Frame
• Uses the current frame of the active movie as the poster frame
— the poster frame is the picture used for the preview in the open dialog,
— the movie must be saved for the poster frame to be permanently set.
Play Every Frame
• Plays every frame of the active movie
— otherwise QuickTime may skip frames to maintain the required frame rate,
— Play Every Frame preserves all frames at the expense of maintaining the frame rate,
— sound is muted if Play Every Frame is turned on because the frame rate is variable,
— the movie speed controller is disabled if Play Every Frame is turned on because the movie is played as smoothly as possible.
Mute Sound
• Turns the sound off in the active movie.
Stage
• Plays the active movie in front of a black background, with no distracting windows, menu bar or cursor.
• Playing a movie using Stage plays the movie at its best, as fast as possible.
• If your computer permits hardware scaling (e.g. Colour Classic) and your monitor is set to thousands of colours, the movie will be played at twice the current size with no speed reduction.
• Click the mouse button to close the stage window.
Easter Egg: Hold down option while choosing Stage, or choose Stage on Christmas Day.
Time Code…
• Presents the dialog box shown below.
 
• Lets you choose the format for the sub-seconds counter (the time counter on the far right) in the movie speed palette
— 24 fps (frames per second) is the cinema film standard,
— 25 fps corresponds to the broadcast PAL and SECAM standards,
— 30 fps (actually 29.97) corresponds to the broadcast NTSC standard,
— 60 ticks per second is the native time standard used by the Macintosh.
Movie Speed Palette
• Toggles between showing or hiding the Movie Speed Palette.
