-
Time lapse text overlay with scripts or expressions?
I have shot thousands of stills that I am now wanting to make a time lapse movie out of. Each still is named with the date and time it was taken. For example 0507270505011.jpg would have been taken yy/mm/dd/hh/mm/ss/(camera ID).
Is there a way to write an expression or script that would overlay the date and time stamp on each image (frame) so as the movie played the date and time would increment accurately?
Are there any plugins that would do something like this?
Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks
Dan
-
2 Replies
-
Well, there are several scripts dealing with importing text (look at AEnhancers.com)… So if you can make a list of your images, it’s quite possible. Other than that, it wouldn’t be impossible to parse the file names natively and create a textlayer spitting out the name… I don’t think anybody has something in stock, though, so you may wanna ask someone at the mentioned forum if they can help you out.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
-
To me, you’d better use a tool like total commander:
– reorder by date of creation
– rename automatically to make a sequence of stills : file0000001.jpg / file0000002.jpg …
then just import in AE like sequence !sebastien
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up