How To Speed Up In Quicktime For Mac

15 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for QuickTime Aug 23, 2009 - 11 Comments Apple’s QuickTime is the go-to Mac OS X app for video playback, but there’s more to QuickTime Player than meets the eye.

In QuickTime Player option-clicking the forward button increases the speed by 0.1. Clicking the backward button plays videos in reverse though. You can slow down videos by running this in AppleScript Editor: tell application 'QuickTime Player' to set rate of document 1 to 0.1 Or through a terminal: osascript -e 'tell application 'QuickTime Player' to set rate of document 1 to 0.1' VLC's playback speed can be changed in smaller increments from the menu bar. In the menu, the lowest you can set is 0.25.

If you press ⌘- the rate can be set even lower, but only to fixed values of 0.5, 0.33, 0.25, 0.12, 0.06, 0.03 and 0.02. In Movist you can press ⇧⌘← or adjust the slider in the control HUD: Movist can reduce the playing speed by half, not more. Mac software list.