I’m taking online guitar lessons over Zoom. Usually my teacher will send me a video of him playing through whatever it is I’m learning for reference purposes. These come over WhatsApp, and are MP4 files. I Airdrop these from my iPhone to my Mac Mini (MacOS 12.6) so I can watch them on a big monitor.
Often I will want to replay a section over and over again. This is quite tricky to do with the default QuickTime player. What I’d like is to be able to set loop points in the video and loop a specific section. It would be nice if I could save the loop points with the file, and bonus points if I can create multiple regions and choose which one to play.
Other than that, I don’t need any fancy features. I won’t be editing the videos in any way. Any recommendations? Thanks.
I think what you’re looking for is “AB loop” functionality. Like you said, Quicktime Player doesn’t have this function. IINA and VLC, two of the more popular video players for macOS do, but in my experience it’s a pretty clunky interface and I’m pretty sure there is no way to save the loops or set a hot key to immediately go back to the loop you created, let alone multiple loops.
The easiest thing to do may be to use Quicktime’s “Trim” function to make new files of just the sections you want looped and then use QT’s regular “Loop” function.
Thanks @zbuzz - I didn’t know about the Trim function in Quicktime - I’ll check that out. I’ve heard of VLC (I think I might have even had it installed at some point in the past) but not IINA. I’ll take at look at them as well.