QuickTime Player
This little app opens when you double-click any kind of movie file. Press Play to
play and stop the show. The control toolbar at the bottom of the
window fades away after a few seconds, and reappears anytime your
mouse moves back into the movie frame.Click the Full Screen button (
) to make the video fill your entire monitor, just as though you’d
chosen View→Enter Full Screen.
But waist, there’s more! QuickTime Player is also QuickTime Editor. You can:
Edit movies using the Trim, Split, Cut, Copy, and Paste commands in the Edit menu.
Record movies (using your Mac’s camera) by choosing File→New Movie Recording.
Record screen activity by choosing File→New Screen Recording and then clicking the red Record button. Click the
button to stop recording.Export your video directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, or Facebook by choosing from the
menu. Sign into your online account, enter
keywords and so on, and then click Share. (The same
menu lets you send the movie as an email attachment, an iMessage, or a transmission to a nearby Mac by AirDrop.) Or use File→Export to save the movie to ...
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