Quicktime - Always on Top
You don’t need third party tools to keep your Quicktime movie always on top. Select your movie in Finder, hit Shift-Command-Y, and your movie opens in a Sticky. (The keyboard shortcut invokes an item in Services) Set the Sticky to float and the movie stays on top of other windows. Now you can get some work done with the movie playing in the corner, but your other windows won’t cover the video.
You could also look at this as an easier way to play your Quicktime file back borderless. They won’t be perfectly borderless, like Murphy showed you in this tip. But setting the Sticky color to gray makes it look pretty close. The extra screen real estate is nice to have on a laptop. And Murphy’s other Quicktime tip didn’t have the Always on Top option.
It’s a little surprising Apple hasn’t added an Always on Top menu to Quicktime. But this seems like a reasonable workaround. Take a look as Murphy plays with Quicktime and Sticky notes in the screencast.
2. December 2007 at 6:47 pm :
any idea how to keep quicktime always on top on pc windows?
2. December 2007 at 9:28 pm :
Sorry Omar - no idea.
6. December 2007 at 8:37 am :
thanx for a cool tip!
15. December 2007 at 4:34 am :
Check XNeat at http://www.xneat.com/ .
it will allows you to make any window stay on top in windows PC.
10. April 2008 at 9:18 am :
great tip indeed
thanks a bunch for this one
(great for watching a film with subs where i can’t follow the
story when i’m in another window)
28. June 2008 at 1:34 am :
Thanks for this tip, it’s an awesome one that helps much when I want to watch seminars while working.