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Need to generate numbers that count up/down
I’m trying to figure out some way to generate numbers that can count up, starting at one predefined number, and ending at another. I’ve tried messing with the timecode function, but it doesn’t seem to work well, since it just adds function to an existing video, and doesn’t create its own track that can be modified.
This is what I’m trying to do. I have some motorcycle footage of driving at a steady 60mph. I want to use multiple nested velocity envelopes to steadily increase the rate, so that by the end it is playing at around 20X speed, or a virtual 1200 MPH. I want to include some sort of basic virtual speedometer. I figure if I can just somehow generate a clip that steadily counts from 60 to 1200, then I could simply stretch/shrink this clip to match the size of the final motorcycle clip, and the numbers should all match up right. Any advice how to do so?
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[Cameron Watkins] “I’ve tried messing with the timecode function, but it doesn’t seem to work well, since it just adds function to an existing video, and doesn’t create its own track that can be modified.”
So add a new track, insert an Empty Event, apply the Timecode plug-in to the empty event with the Absolute Frames preset. You can render it out as QuickTime Animation with an alpha channel and cut it up any way you’d like to just include frames 60 thru 1200.
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