• Avid Media Composer

  Avid: TimeCode BurnIn: How do you not show frames?

  Posted by Jasmine Raphael on July 22, 2013 at 5:10 pm

  I’m trying to show a 60 minutes timer in a film i’m creating in Avid. However it shows hours and frames, neither of which I want to show. I’m using timecode burn in, but if someone knows a better way to add a 60 minute timer, please let me know!

  Richard Sanchez replied 13 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Graham Tees

  July 23, 2013 at 8:12 am

  Have a look at this

  https://hlinke.de/wiki/index.php5?title=ClockDisplay_AVX2
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  Richard Sanchez

  July 23, 2013 at 3:09 pm

  Last time I had to do this, I found it easier, quicker and more precise to do it in After Effects.

  If you have access to After Effects. Try this.

  Create a text layer, and option-click on the “Source Text” option to open the script window. Paste this script.

  rate = -1;
  clockStart = 3600;

  function padZero(n){
  if (n < 10) return “0” + n else return “” + n
  }

  clockTime = clockStart + rate*(time – inPoint);

  if (clockTime < 0){
  sign = “-“;
  clockTime = -clockTime;
  }else{
  sign = “”;
  }

  t = Math.floor(clockTime);
  min = Math.floor((t%3600)/60);
  sec = Math.floor(t%60);
  ms = clockTime.toFixed(2).substr(-2);
  sign + padZero(min) + “:” + padZero(sec)

  Richard Sanchez
  Los Angeles, CA

  “We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

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