Clip stops playing

I am looking at a large number of mov. clips which I am logging and transcribing in a database. Every time I switch over to the database program, the clip stops playing in FCP. Is there a way to display a clip that will continue running while I switch over to a different program?
If not, is there a media player that can display the timecode of .mov clips? I did not find the timecode in Quicktime 10.
Thank you!

Thanks RedTruck, however I am running 10.6 which comes with Quicktime 10. Is there a way to make QT 10 display the timecode? If not, how can I install QT 7? I tried to do it, but the system said it cannot proceed since there is a newer version of the program already installed.
Thanks -
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