timer

timer is an advanced plug-in for iMovie that provides you with all timing-related tools you have ever required. Use it to time real-time events (e.g. footage of a sporting event, experiments, forensics), add ‘24’-style time info to your movie, countdowns, or provide time base lines for your stop-motion videos. In short, any time-related information can be added with this plug-in.

As a reference class plug-in this effect sport the following features:

Timer:

• real-time timer (tied to the video signal)
• real-time count-down
• time dilation/compression from 1:10 to 10:1
• pre-set to any start value (timer)
• count-down to any stop value (count-down)
• calculate time (you provide start and stop times, the plug crates all time values in-between)
• 11 different timer formats available

Artistic:

• place the time anywhere on the clip -- using the mouse!
• automatically scale time with mouse -- no silly font size selection!
• use any font (note that this is an effect, not a title plug-in!)
• use any color for time display
• optional panel behind timer for improved contrast
• use any color for panel (if enabled)
• 100 levels of transparency

Video timing (for real-time timer/count-down):

• 30 fps (NTSC)
• 25 fps (PAL)

Note to advanced video editors:

• Since iMovie does not pass any original DV timing info to the plug-in, this plug-in can only be used to newly time-stamp source, not re-establish lost timing code.

Use this plug-in for any time-related info displayed in a video, e.g.

• time of day
• time passage for stop-motion
• clocking real-time events
• ‘24’-style time info
• establish time codes for videos
• count-downs