[6116]

I'm using Toon Boom Studio, but to check my animation, it would help a lot to be able to see the stuff I export in slow motion. Does anyone know of a utitlity (I'd even settle for a classic one) that would play qt movies or even better, Flash movies, in slow motion?

thanks
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[starfleetX]

I hate Apple's QuickTime Player since 3.0 because of what you mentioned (as well as other reasons). It used to be able to play movies in variable fast-motion and slow-motion but it can't any more. However, if you open a QT movie in a web browser like IE, it still has the traditional bar and arrows on the right. Just control-click in the arrows and a little speed bar will replace them for you to control the playback speed.

I keep an OLD copy of Apple's "MoviePlayer" 2.5 on hand just for this very reason.

[Rickster]

If you need this ability in OS X, you can:

a) play the movie in a web browser or some other app, where it will be presented with the standard controller.

b) Apple has some developer sample code called SimpleMoviePlayer, which does basic playback with the standard controller.

You can download from the apple ste an applescript to play qicktime files in every speed you want, there are scripts for os 9 and for os X

[6116]

Thanks for all your help, everyone. I'm still having a little trouble, but I hope Toon Boom's 10.1 update will help. Exporting to swf makes the clip's speed uncontrollable in any qt player, and exporting to quicktime gets rid of the soundtrack (and converting the swf to quicktime also loses the sound). Hopefully, in some update or another, I'll be able to export to quicktime with sound.

thanks again
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[Millennium]

The standard QT controls (i.e. not the QuickTime Player proper) still have these features. They should work the same way as they did before.

Of course, this does introduce the problem of getting a player that uses the standard controls. Web browsers have already been mentioned. Someone could probably code up a simple QuickTime player without too much trouble, also. A complete MoviePlayer replacement, while not trivial, would be possible.

[absmiths]

Here are the Apple scripts referred to above:
Quicktime Applescripts

Check toward the bottom under "Play"