I'm a complete newbie to VideoStudio (and 'proper' video editing in general), so I'm struggling to work out a simple way to place a counter over my video in a way that's easy to update.
I want to count up a number of actions from, say, 0 to 500 and these are not occurring at a set interval. The closest thing I can find as an example of what I'm trying to do is the body-count sequence from Hot Shots Part Deux, though in my case the counter will be incrementing a lot slower.
There is an old thread that seems to want to do roughly the same thing, but there's no obvious answer in that one.
The most basic answer seems to be to add a title for each number and manually line each one up with the video, but that's incredibly time-consuming and will be a nightmare if I want to change the position or font...
I'm using VideoStudio X8 Ultimate.
On-screen counter
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Re: On-screen counter
The big problem you have is that you want the counter to increment at variable intervals - not at all sure how you would do that - there is no signal available to trigger a change of number automatically.
If I was going to do something like that I think I would set up an electronic counter in front of a video camera - then watch the original video through while filming the counter which I would manually step forward at each event. Then take the resultant video and put it in the overlay track under the main video.
other than that as you say it may have to be a title with a number for each event - a very slow process
If I was going to do something like that I think I would set up an electronic counter in front of a video camera - then watch the original video through while filming the counter which I would manually step forward at each event. Then take the resultant video and put it in the overlay track under the main video.
other than that as you say it may have to be a title with a number for each event - a very slow process
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Re: On-screen counter
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not sure using a video overlay would give me the look I'm after, though (a nice, clean counter with a decent font).
Having had a bit more of a play around, I think I might be able to achieve what I want using the subtitle function. I can throw together a small external script that will allow me to register my count events by pressing a key as I watch the video and then write the timing and count out to a subtitle file. I should then be able to import the subtitle file directly into VideoStudio. Maybe...
Having had a bit more of a play around, I think I might be able to achieve what I want using the subtitle function. I can throw together a small external script that will allow me to register my count events by pressing a key as I watch the video and then write the timing and count out to a subtitle file. I should then be able to import the subtitle file directly into VideoStudio. Maybe...