Quicktime Snow Leopard SCREENRECORDING

Nice the new screenrecording in QT SL
But when I make an instructional movie (of my screen), the menubar is 'hardly' visible in the new player it disappears under the nice black topbar of the new quicktimeplayer window.
Yes in fullscreen it is OK, but if somebody would like to 'do what I did' in steps, you miss this info.
And also not so good: the movie controls: asap you stop the player (to examine a scene closely) the controls appear and cover a part of the still.
Any solutions are appreciated!
Frank

Screen capture is new in QuickTime and the only option is the "full" dimensions.
A better way to make these recordings would be to set your Display resolution to a "smaller" size during capture and then reset it to the original size for viewing.
I don't know of a safe method of removing the "on screen" controls when the movie is moused over or paused.

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