Thanks DaveT2, but I think you misread my question. What I'm looking for is a way of creating a label that is tied to the frame number. So, for example, let's say I captured a time lapse sequence of a flower growing at 1 minute intervals. When I actually play it back, however, It'll be at 30fps. To give the viewer a sense of time, what I'd like to see is a text overlay showing minutes. Is there any way to do this?

Choose "frames" for the timecode. Then overlay a text event that adds "minutes" on the screen after the number.

Thanks Chienworks, that's a good suggestion, but I'm wondering about those occations where each frame might be 5, 10, 15, etc. minutes. Maybe I'm out of luck? I sure wish there where a function that said "take the frame number, scale it by this number, add an optional offset, slap a unit after it, and then display it." Man...wouldn't that be nice.

Sorry, I did misunderstand what you were looking for.

I cannot help with that.

Dave T2

newUzer,
It seems to me that what you want is the opposite of what you asked for. You don't want microseconds, you want the time code to go FASTER than real-time. For example, let's say you took one frame every hour for 12 hours. That's 12 frames. You want the timecode to go in one hour increments, so frame 12 shows that it's 12 hours later. In other words, in that example, you want the hour digit to change with each frame.

However, I've never used the timecode plugin so I don't know if that's possible. Sorry.

Fred

Actually you don't want timecode at all. You want to superimpose a number that tells elapsed time. Use "generated media" with keyframes and change the number at each frame.

Hate to be practical but how about including a digital clock in the shot? Even if it's a bit late for that you could just shoot a digital clock over the same time period and composite in into the frame.

Bob.