QuickTime Movie Controls,

Is there a way to save a movie without the big ugly play buttons and have only the small volume button and the small Play and Pause buttons to the left of the play bar. I've seen other people do this. Is it possible?

Are you talking about the Quicktime player? Or are you talking about Quicktime in a web page?
For the most part you would have to build what is called a skin for the player.
Here is a simple tutorial:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/mediaskins.html
LiveStage is one program for making Qt skins.
http://www.totallyhip.com/livestage.html
If the video is for the web you can use javascript to control a video.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QTScriptingJavaScript/bQTScripting_JavaScri_Document/chapter_1000_section_5.html#//apple_re f/doc/uid/TP40001526-CH001-DontLinkElementID7

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