Timer

kdenlive2304_effects-timer

Description

This effect/filter overlays a timer onto the video. The timer can count up or down.

Parameters

Parameter

Value

Description

Font Family / Style / Size / Weight

Selection / Integer

Select the font and its attributes for the text. Font Weight seems to behave differently depending on the selected font family.

Outline Width

Integer

Set the width of the outline in pixels to 0, 1, 2 or 3

Padding

Integer

The number of pixels to pad the background rectangle beyond the edges of text

Horizontal / Vertical Alignment

Selection

Set the horizontal and vertical alignment within the geometry rectangle

Format

Selection

The time format of the timer text

Start

Slider

The time that the timer will start counting up or down. The text will be frozen at 00:00:00.000 from the start of the filter until the start time has elapsed.

Duration

Slider

The maximum elapsed duration of the timer after the start time has elapsed. The text will be frozen at the duration time after the duration has elapsed.

Offset

Slider

An offset to be added to the timer value. When the direction is “down”, the timer will count down to “offset” instead of 00:00:00.000. When the direction is up, the timer will count up starting from “offset”.

Direction

Selection

Whether the counter should count up from 00:00:00.000 or down from the duration time.

X / Y / W / H / Size / Opacity

Integer / Percent

X and Y coordinates, Width and Height, Size and Opacity of the overlay rectangle. You can use these parameters to fine tune the position, size and opacity of the overlay.

Foreground / Background / Outline Color

Picker

Specify the colors for the text (foreground), the background rectangle defined by Padding and the outline color (if Outline Width is greater than 0).

The following selection items are available:

Horizontal Alignment Vertical Alignment

Horizontal

Vertical

Left

Top

Center

Middle

Right

Bottom

Direction

Up

Timer counts up

Down

Timer counts down

Format

HH:MM:SS

hours:minutes:seconds

HH:MM:SS.S

hours:minutes:seconds.1/10th

MM:SS

minutes:seconds

MM:SS.SS

minutes:seconds.1/100th

MM:SS.SSS

minutes:seconds.1/1000th (milliseconds)

SS

seconds

SS.S

seconds.1/10th

SS.SS

seconds.1/100th

SS.SSS

seconds.1/1000th (milliseconds)

Hint

In order to use a semi-transparent background color, click on the color panel, click on + and use the horizontal slider to change the transparency.