Generators

As the name suggests, Generators generate a short video clip or still images for specific purposes. Many of you will recognize them from the good old days of bulky TV sets.

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Using generators

There are three generators available:

Counter

Color Bars

White Noise

Counter

This generates a counter timer video clip in various formats.

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Counter generator

Count up:

You can choose to have the clip count up by checking that option, otherwise it will count down. .. .. versionadded:: 17.04

No Background:

This option will remove the black lines and the white circles from the counter leaving only the grey background.

Counter Style:

Choose the display style for the counter

  • Seconds to 1 (default)

  • Seconds to 0

  • Frames

  • Timecode

  • Clock

Sound:

Choose whether and what sound to playback

  • Silent

  • 1 kHz before end

  • 1 kHz each second

Drop frame timecode:

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To change the size and position of the clip, you can add an effect to the clip on the timeline or in the project bin such as the Position and Zoom or the Transform.

Color Bars

Generates a color test pattern of various types.

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Color Bars generator

Bar Type:

  • PAL color bars

  • PAL color bars with red

  • BBC color bars

  • EBU color bars

  • SMPTE color bars

  • Philips PM5544

  • FuBK

  • Simplified FuBK

White Noise

This generates a video noise clip - like the “snow” on an out-of-tune analogue TV including the audio white noise

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