Real time clock FX / script

farss wrote on 5/6/2006, 4:50 PM
Just about to start editing video that includes timed trials, hill climb actually.
I'm thinking for the next time we do this if we had the official times we could run a clock super, would add a little more gee whiz to the thing.
So I'm wondering if anyone was found a way to do this easily.
I'm thinking one could use the conventional text generator but I'm wondering if there'd be anyway to automate this.

But then again, I could do it once by creating an uncompressed vid, add that on an upper track to composite with the footage and trim to suit.
No panic about this, we don't have the official times for this 'race' so we wouldn't be able to use it for months anyway, just something to get the creative juices working.

Grazie would love this video, the cars are old Jaguars.

Bob.

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Grazie wrote on 5/6/2006, 5:12 PM
"Chocks away - Biggles!! Time to get the old Jag out for a spin - What!?!"
farss wrote on 5/6/2006, 5:27 PM
Of course every Jag came with a mobile workshop :)

Although the speech by the head of Jag from around '92 to '97 is kind of interesting, took the car from 35th out of 36 in terms of quality to #3, thanks to his efforts shortly after he left Jag hit #1. Goes to show the Brits can do it given the right environment, pity is I guess they have to thank Ford for giving them the chance (and $1 billion).

Oh and back to what I was asking about, I just realised the Timecode FX will almost do what I want, just set it for Time, I change the color of the text easy enough but not the font, damn.

Also from that 'other' forum I got a link to an app that'll turn a PC into a huge stop watch, it'll even trigger from a contact closure! Need to go back and see if it lets me change the font but I think not. If it does I could just capture it with Camtasia or vid the screen.

Bob.
johnmeyer wrote on 5/6/2006, 6:42 PM
Download this:

Count Up/Down Sports Clocks

Open the VEG file. The opening text describes how its done. Any questions, just ask.
farss wrote on 5/6/2006, 8:10 PM
That much I'd worked out, except I thought of using a luminance key rather than the cookie cutter and added seconday color corrector to change the color of the text.

However I'm looking for a way to change the font, one of those 7 segment display fonts would look OK.

Bob.
johnmeyer wrote on 5/6/2006, 9:42 PM
I looked at the Vegas hidden "Internal" and there was a promising item called "Font for Time Display." However, after changing it to various fonts, and restarting Vegas, just in case that was required, I couldn't see any change, so I set it back to Arial.
jetdv wrote on 5/6/2006, 9:47 PM
Oh and back to what I was asking about, I just realised the Timecode FX will almost do what I want, just set it for Time, I change the color of the text easy enough but not the font.

You could try the Quick Label tool in Excalibur. It will give you control over the font style as well as the color.
Grazie wrote on 5/7/2006, 1:03 AM
Bob, you've got email - ☺

Grazie