A Elapse timer

[shellott]

Does Adobe Premiere Pro v7 have a count "UP" timer built in? I am looking to place a clock in the upper right of the video to show the elapsed time while a sequence is playing. The time would increment every second.

I have thought that building a title of length 00:00:01 and placing it in the upper right of the video will do the job, but I do not think it is efficient. I really do not want to build 3600 titles (each of durantion 1 second) to fulfill a one hour timer.

Is there something that alredy exists? Or an easy way to do this?

Another thought was to take a prebuilt title file, which I have found is in XML format, and run it through a script to automate the genration of the 3600 files. However, it looks like these *.prtl files have hidden characters at the beginning that is stopping me from doing this.

Any thougths are appreciated.

 

[Akribie]

You could try downloading the overlay Timecode movie available from

http://www.video2stream.com/

 

[shellott]

Here is the solution I used.

I made several title sequences. They are broken up as follows:

A) 10 titles showing the seconds between 0 and 9.
B) 6 titles showing the tens of seconds between 0 and 5.
C) 10 titles showing the minutes between 0 and 9.
D) 6 titles showing the tens of minutes between 0 and 5.
E) 1 title showing the hour zero, the background and the colons for seperators. (i.e. 0:__:__) underlines indicate spaces.

I have the titles lined up so that they will appear as 0C:BA on the screen.

I then created a sequence called secs. In that sequence I placed all ten titles from A. I made sure each title had a duration of one second. The order was 0 through 9.

I then created a sequence called tens_sec. In that sequence I placed all 6 titles from B on video track 1. I made sure each title was of duration 10 seconds. I then dragged 6 copies of the sequence secs (created above) onto video track 2.

I then created a sequence called mins. In that sequence I placed all ten titles from C on video track 1. I made sure each title was of duration 1 minute. The order was 0 through 9. I then dragged 10 copies of the sequence tens_sec onto video track 2.

I then created a sequence called tens_min. In that sequence I placed all 6 titles from D on video track 1. I made sure each title was of length 10 minutes. The order was 0 through 5. I then dragged six copies of the sequence mins onto video track 2.

Finally I created a sequence called one_hour_timer. In that sequence I placed the title from E on video track 1. I made sure the length of the title was 1 hour. I then dragged the sequence called tens_min onto video track 2.

That completed the creation of a one hour elapse timer. It is a good thing that we can nest sequnces within sequences. Otherwise this would have to bue taken a lot longer to build.

By the way...

To speed up the process of building all the titles, I built one of each. I then exited premier pro and located the saved files on the HDD. I made copies of the files and opened them in a text editior. From there, I did a search and replace of the number. It worked for me. You may have a faster way.

Let me know if you find one.