Announcement: Our new CyberLink Feedback Forum has arrived! Please transfer to our new forum to provide your feedback or to start a new discussion. The content on this CyberLink Community forum is now read only, but will continue to be available as a user resource. Thanks!
CyberLink Community Forum
where the experts meet
| Advanced Search >
Time Stamp FX - Frame Count Issue
prevaljo [Avatar]
Member Joined: Oct 01, 2017 22:19 Messages: 105 Offline
[Post New]
I want to add a countdown timer to a video clip. The exact time is important to the video. The TimeStamp I am using in Power Director 21 has what I consider a bug. I can set the timer to count down from 20 mins but with the FPS set to 30 the most I can set the initial time to is 20:00:24 (ie 20 mins, 0 seconds 24 frames). If you manually advance the timeline one frame at a time the frame count decreases to 20:00.01 and the next frame the timer displays 19:59:29. From this point on each second is 30 frames. Any suggestions on how to resolve ?

Buggy feature ?
optodata
Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline
[Post New]
I don't see any issues when my project's frame rate and the FX FPS are both set to 30. I see the counter advance by 1 second per frame whether I count up or use the Reverse time option and count down.

It works the same whether I have the dragged the FX directly onto a clip (black numbers in the below video) or if I place it on a separate FX track (shown with yellow numbers):



This was done on a 60p clip.

I also tried setting the inital value to 20:00:29 and 20:00:24, and both timers work exactly as expected

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Mar 23. 2023 00:05

JL_JL [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline
[Post New]
Quote I want to add a countdown timer to a video clip. The exact time is important to the video. The TimeStamp I am using in Power Director 21 has what I consider a bug. I can set the timer to count down from 20 mins but with the FPS set to 30 the most I can set the initial time to is 20:00:24 (ie 20 mins, 0 seconds 24 frames). If you manually advance the timeline one frame at a time the frame count decreases to 20:00.01 and the next frame the timer displays 19:59:29. From this point on each second is 30 frames. Any suggestions on how to resolve ?

Buggy feature ?

From your description, it sounds as if your PD pref > General Timeline frame rate: is set at 25fps.

Jeff
prevaljo [Avatar]
Member Joined: Oct 01, 2017 22:19 Messages: 105 Offline
[Post New]
Thanks for having a look at this issue. The two attachments show the Time Stamp set up, I cannot set the frame count to 30. and a piece of video that attempts to show the frame counter..
 Filename
Produce_23.mp4
[Disk]
 Description
Poor attempt at slowing video down
 Filesize
3818 Kbytes
 Downloaded:
201 time(s)
[Thumb - CLTS 2023-03-23 193513.jpg]
 Filename
CLTS 2023-03-23 193513.jpg
[Disk]
 Description
FX Timestamp Setup
 Filesize
61 Kbytes
 Downloaded:
10 time(s)
prevaljo [Avatar]
Member Joined: Oct 01, 2017 22:19 Messages: 105 Offline
[Post New]
Quote

From your description, it sounds as if your PD pref > General Timeline frame rate: is set at 25fps.

Jeff
\

THank you for this wonderful answer.. I can only say yet another hidden gem in Power Director 21, roll on PD22.
tomasc [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline
[Post New]
29 to 00 in frames is a count of 30 frames when the frame is advanced on my 59.97 fps timeline.
Powered by JForum 2.1.8 © JForum Team