Tip 95Supertip: Get the Most from QuickTime Player

Here are a handful of secret tweaks that can be made to QuickTime Player in order to potentially make it more useful and user friendly.

Each is to be typed into a Terminal window after you’ve first quit QuickTime Player.

Make the Playback Window Square

By default the corners of the QuickTime Player window are rounded a little to create a pleasing look, but for those who like to see everything that’s going on in each frame of a movie, this can be annoying.

The following command will make the playback window fully square:

 
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX
 
MGCinematicWindowDebugForceNoRoundedCorners -bool TRUE

To restore rounded edges later, use the following command:

 
defaults delete ...

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