brian
October 6, 2020, 1:36am
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The Text:Simple filter has a feature that allows you to specify a specific time format:
There is an advanced feature for the text filter that might meet your needs. The time based keywords can be succeeded by an strftime compatible code that specifies the format of the time.
For example,
#createdate %I:%M:%S %p#
will display the time as “01:12:44 PM”
The keywords that support this feature are: createdate, filedate, localfiledate, and localtime
The strftime format specification can be found here:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html
This feature is poorly docu…
Keywords include:
#smpte_df# - SMPTE drop-frame timecode of the frame
#smpte_ndf# - SMPTE non-drop-frame timecode of the frame
#timecode# - same as #smpte_df#
#frame# - frame number of the frame
#filedate# - modification date of the file (GMT)
#localfiledate# - modification date of the file (local)
#localtime# - current system date and time
#resource# - resource of the producer that produced the frame
Timecode keywords are based on the framerate and…
However, that timestamp is a file property and will not “count up” as the file plays. If you need it to count, then you could manually add a timer filter to overlay next to the file date and manually enter the start time for the timer.
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