an option for ShowSMPTE??

[medp7060]

For the moment, ShowSMPTE displays SMPTE timecode as "hours:minutes:seconds:frame". Is it possible not to show the frame, only show "hours:minutes:seconds"

[sh0dan]

Yes - it's been discussed before here:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=114200&highlight=showtime

The last post also contains a script function, that will do the same, with built-in filters.

I'll add this to the 2.6 to-do list, as it is useful and pretty easy to do.

[medp7060]

Thank you for your reply, sh0dan. Glad it is on the to-do list. I just checked the script. It almost does the same except that no offset option for user to add an offset to the timecode.

[sh0dan]

ScriptClip("Subtitle(ShowTime(10.0 + current_frame / FrameRate()))")

Replace "10.0" with your delay in seconds.

[sh0dan]

I Implemented fallback to hh.mm.ss.ms. to 2.6 CVS. This will be in the upcoming beta.

To force this, use fps = 0 as argument. You will still be able to use frame offset, to offset your time.

[IanB]

Probably ShowSMTPE() should be exactly that, i.e. "show smtpe timecode".

This function might be better called ShowTime() or something equally descriptive.

[medp7060]

That's quick, sh0dan. Thanks. I am looking forward to testing it. I hope the "ms" is also optional in "hh.mm.ss.ms" because our eyes are too slow to catch it. Besides, ms changes so fast that it will distract us from the movie.

By the way, I tested this: ScriptClip("Subtitle(ShowTime(10.0 + current_frame / FrameRate()))")

If I replace the 10.0 with e.g. 73672, the ms is slightly different from that shown by VirtualDub.

Happy New Year!