Olympic clock projection

[mnk_193]

Hi,

 

We are doing a production in which we would like to project a race timing clock, like this: https://www.google.c...f=1542972629565 I am struggling to find any kind of video for this, is there any other way we could do it?

 

Any help would be appreciated

[alistermorton]

Could you write an application to generate the required image and feed that to the projector? Should be pretty straightforward in C#/VB.net, python or whatever else you can get someone to code in.

[Shez]

Any decent video editing software should be able to generate that. Hardest bit will be finding a suitable font!

I use Lightworks - it can certainly do a timer like that albeit counting fractions of a second in frames rather than 1/100ths of a second.

[Dave m]

make a video.

 

There are several free versions on youtube depending on what you need, some may need a simple editing package to alter them or reverse a count down to count up.

 

In the past I have connected an iPad to an HDMI monitor for conferences, you might be able to record the output?

 

It is hard to say, without knowing what you have and need

[kitlane]

Do you know anyone with access to After Effects? I 've made something similar to this many years ago with AE. There are plenty of online tutorials on how to do it. Just search for 'After Effects Timer'

[MarkPAman]

Could you adapt this?

 

QLab Cook Book by Mic Pool

[alistermorton]

If you can dedicate a PC (and an operator) to doing just this job it's about 20 lines of code. Of course if you want to be able to start from a specific time, start and stop the time, fade it in and out etc or network it with qlab or your lighting desk then obviously its a bit more code, but this is not difficult to write a simple standalone desktop application for. I wrote a very basic app that starts at 00:00:00 and counts up in hundredths until you press Escape as a full screen app in about ten minute (including downloading and installing the seven segment font). Probably about as easy as it gets for a one off.

 

Any decent video editing software should be able to generate that. Hardest bit will be finding a suitable font!

 

DSEG7 and DSEG14 for PC