Simple Editing Using QuickTime 4 Pro
QuickTime MoviePlayer is a small but powerful application that allows you to view, edit, and otherwise manipulate QuickTime movies. QuickTime movies are not necessarily only video and audio. Quicktime supports text tracks, sprite tracks, music tracks, QTVR tracks, and MPEG tracks to name just a few.

Control Bar
The control bar at the bottom of a movie in MoviePlayer is where basic playback controls are located.

1. Audio wheel
At the far left of the bar is the audio control. By turning the audio wheel you can adjust the volume level.

2. Play/Pause button
Center, bottom are the play/pause buttons. Clicking these buttons toggles between play and pause. The space bar and the return key also have the same function.

3. Playback Head
In the center of the control bar is the playback head(black diamond). You can see it move as a movie plays. You can click and drag the head to navigate through the movie.

4. Other controls
To the far right is a button with four dots on it. Clicking drops down an expanded window with separate slider controls for balance, bass and treble. There are also arrow keys for quick navigation through a piece.

Menu Bar:

File Menu:
Import
Some types of files can not be opened through standard procedures(i.e. double clicking or Open menu option). If you can't open a file by these normal modes, try using the import function.

Export
This function will allow you to compress all of your tracks into one video track and one audio track for better performance. Here you can also save audio tracks out as sound files (AIFF,WAVE,etc.), video tracks as pictures, text tracks as plain text files and so on. By clicking the Options button in the Export dialog box, you can specify compression settings for your file.

Present Movie
Lets you play a movie in the center of the screen with a black background. This is useful for presentations and copying your movie to tape. The Slide Show option in the Present Movie dialog box allows you to step through a movie frame by frame by using the arrow keys or clicking the mouse button. The Slide Show option is suited for a movie that is made of individual images rather than dynamic video. To exit from Present Movie mode, press the ESC key or type command-period.

Edit Menu:
Simple editing is performed by standard cut and paste methods incorporating simple added keystrokes :

Making a Selection
To select a range of frames, hold down the Shift key and drag the playback head, or use the step buttons. If you are stopped on an individual frame and have made no other selection, the Edit menu operations apply to that frame only (you can copy still images into PhotoShop or other graphics programs if desired). The standard Copy, Cut, and Paste options in the Edit menu function as you would expect them to.

Modifier Keys
A number of powerful features are enabled when holding down the various modifier keys and selecting from the Edit menu:

Add (enabled by holding down the Option key)
Adds the contents of the clipboard to the movie as a separate track. A normal paste operation performed with a track in the clipboard will paste the track into the video track at the selection point.

Trim (enabled by holding down the Option key)
The opposite of Cut, Trim will keep only the selected part of the movie and deletes the rest.

Replace (enabled by holding down the Shift key)
Replaces the selection with the contents of the clipboard

Add Scaled (enabled by holding down the Option and Shift keys) Adds the contents of the clipboard to the movie, but scales the addition to fit the amount of time represented by the selection.

Extract Tracks
Allows you to save a track as a separate file, which can then be added to another movie or used on its own.

Delete Tracks
Allows you to delete tracks.

Enable Tracks
Allows you to set each track as enabled or disabled, without deleting it. Particularly useful in conjunction with multiple language tracks.

Movie Menu:
Get Info
This is the most important feature of the Movie menu, and is probably the menu item most frequently used by developers. We're not going to cover each option here, we're just going to describe the structure of the Get Info window.
The Get Info menu item brings up the Info window for the movie. In this window, there are two pop-up menus. The left menu switches between specific tracks (video, audio, text, etc.) and the movie as a whole. The right menu selects information specific to the movie or to the selected track. Information and settings available include:

These track and menu options allow more fine-tuned editing and tweaking of clips -- definitely play around with these options once you are familiar with the basic cut and paste editing process! Also, still images and titles (text from PhotoShop or Illustrator) can be imported and pasted in as needed for film credits, etc

SAVING YOUR MOVIE!
Once you have edited your movie it is important to save it as a self contained "document" so that it will be playable on both MAC and PC platforms. Go to the File menu and choose "Save As" and select the self contained option…be sure to append the .mov suffix for web browser compatibility

QuickTime Playback Shortcuts

• Spacebar, Return Key or Control M : Toggle playback on and off
• Command-Left arrow or Command-Right arrow : Play movie in the direction indicated
• Up arrow or Down arrow : Adjust volume up or down
• Option-Down arrow : Mute the volume
• Option-Up arrow : Adjust volume to the maximum setting
• Left arrow or Right arrow : Move the playhead one frame in the direction indicated
• Command : stop the playback
• Option-Left arrow or Option-Right arrow : Move to the next major feature in the direction indicated. Major features include movie start, left crop marker, right crop marker, and movie end
• Control-Play button : Play back without audio
• Command-T : Toggle playback between play-entire-movie and play-selection-only
• Command-L : Toggle playback between play-once and play-looped
• Command-M : Open movie in playback controls
• Command-0 : Playback half size
• Command-1: Playback normal size
• Command-2 : Playback double size
• Command-3 : Play back large size

QuickTime Selection Shortcuts

• Command-A : Select the entire movie
• Command-B : Select nothing
• Shift-Left-arrow or Shirt-Right-arrow : Move the playhead one frame in the direction indicated and expand the selection to that frame
• Shift-mouse drag : Adjust the selection according to the placement of the mouse along the scrubber bar

QuickTime Editing Shortcuts

• Command-X : Remove the selection from your movie, saving it to memory
• Command-C : Copy the selection to memory
• Command-V : Paste the most recent data from memory to the playhead.
• Option-Command-V : Create a new track, adding the data from memory to that new track, starting at the playhead
• Option-Shift-Command-V : Create a new track, adding the data from memory to that new track, scaled to the start, end, and duration of the current track