Pro Player Help

Opening movies

To open a movie in Pro Player, do one of the following:

• Choose File ▸ Open and select a file in the dialog.
• Choose File ▸ Open Recent... ▸ FILE NAME to open a recent movie from the list.
• Drag a file onto the Pro Player icon in the Finder or Dock.
• Drag a file onto the Pro Player window.
• Click the Recent Files button to view thumbnail images of recently opened movies. Moving the cursor over a thumbnail will show the file name and last opened date. Click a thumbnail to open the movie.

When Pro Player is quit or a new movie is loaded, various playback settings are stored for the current movie - looping, view alpha, view transparency, in point, out point and play selection only. These settings can be quickly reset for the current movie by choosing View ▸ Reset Playback Settings...

Movie information

The lower left of the Pro Player window displays information about the current file.

The file name is shown at the top with up to four panels below (depending on which tracks exist in the movie).

1. File information (top left): Frames per second, Duration, File size and Data rate.
2. Video track information (top right): Video codec, Frame size and Color depth.
3. Timecode track information (lower left): Timecode availability, Start Timecode and Source name.
4. Audio track information (lower right): Audio codec, Audio channel format and Sample rate.

The current timecode is shown in the lower center of the Pro Player window. If the movie does not contain a timecode track, then absolute time from start of the movie is displayed.

Viewing in full screen

To enter full screen viewer mode, do one of the following:

• Click the Full Screen Viewer button in the lower right of the playback controls.
• Choose View > Full Screen Viewer
• Press F

To exit full screen viewer mode, do one of the following:

• Press F
• Press Esc

The zoom animation to and from full screen viewer mode can be enabled or disabled in Preferences.

JKL control

Pro Player fully supports JKL keys for playback control.

• Pressing J or L repeatedly will increase playback speed up to a maximum of 16x.
• Holding down K and pressing J or L will move to the previous or next frame.
• Holding down K and holding down J or L will play backwards or forwards at half speed.

Shuttle and jog on Viewer

To shuttle forwards or backwards:

• Click and drag in the upper half of the Viewer. The current horizontal position determines the speed of playback (-16x to + 16x).

To jog:

• Click and drag in the lower half of the Viewer.
• Holding down Command when dragging will increase the distance required for one frame, giving finer control.

Viewing controls

If a movie is encoded with a video codec that supports alpha channel, then Pro Player supports the following viewing modes. changing the background from black to checkerboard to reveal transparency.

To enable or disable viewing of alpha channel as a white on black image, do one of the following:

• Enable the Alpha button in the lower right of the Pro Player window.
• Press A

To view transparency by changing the background from black to checkerboard, do one of the following:

• Enable the Transparency button in the lower right of the Pro Player window.
• Press T

Audio volume

Volume and mute settings are active across all movies, rather than being stored and recalled separately for each movie as with other settings.

To set the playback volume:

• Click or drag on the volume bar.
  If muting is currently enabled, it will automatically be disabled.

To enable or disable muting, do one of the following:

• Click the Mute button.
• Press M

The volume bar will dim if muting is enabled.

Selecting part of the movie for playback

To mark the in point of the selection, do one of the following:

• Click the In button in the lower right of the Pro Player window.
• Press I

To mark the out point of the selection, do one of the following:

• Click the Out button in the lower right of the Pro Player window.
• Press O

To locate to the in point of the selection, do one of the following:

• Click the Locate to in point button in the lower right of the Pro Player window.
• Press Shift + I

To locate to the out point of the selection, do one of the following:

• Click the Locate to out point button in the lower right of the Pro Player window.
• Press Shift + O

To use or ignore the marked selection for playback, do one of the following:

• Click the Play Selection Only button in the lower right of the Pro Player window.
• Press S

To play between the in and out point, do one of the following:

• Click the Play in to out button in the lower right of the Pro Player window.
• Press P

Looping

To enable or disable looping, do one of the following:

• Click the Loop button in the playback controls.
• Choose View ▸ Loop.
• Press Command + L