The playback speed of our movies can be adjusted on the fly if you're using the QuickTime Custom Player or the Windows Media player. Again, from any course page go to the Preferences tab and make sure you have either QuickTime Custom or Windows Media selected and then click Apply. Now Windows Media, again, will only show up as an option if you're on Windows. Let me return to the table of contents and play a movie. (Male Speaker: In a previous exercise, I showed you how to load the--) The Speed Adjustment controls appear here in the lower left-hand corner of the window. You can increase the speed of the movie to either one-and-a-half times the regular speed or up to twice the original speed. With most courses, you will find that the author still perfectly understandable at either these faster speeds and you will get through the movies a lot quicker this way as long as you don't mind the author sounding a little bit like a chipmunk. (Male Speaker:--best workflow color settings. In this exercise, I'm going to walk you (Male Speaker: through how I created those settings) Contrarily if you're having trouble comprehending what an instructor is saying and you need to slow things down a little bit, click the far-left end of the slider to reduce the movie to half-speed. (Male Speaker:--so that you have a sense of what's going on. Now this may seem like it's a bit over your head.) In some cases, this might help you better understand what is being said. And of course reset the playback speed to its default setting to hear and see everything at regular speed again. (Male Speaker:--at this point in time. After all, I haven't showed you a thing about how Illustrator works at this point.) And that's how you adjust the playback controls in our movies.