Is there any way at all to get the seconds to show with the Date/Time title generator?
I located the actual file "Date/Time.moti" . I see it is a motion file, but do I really need buy Motion to modify this, or will Motion even do this?
I tried lookin inside with TextEdit, but nothing in there my my attention on how to tweak it a bit.
Thanks for any tips.
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 13.3
I doubt that the Date/Time title can be modified to show seconds. It would take some hacking, if it could be done at all. As I recall, the iMovie license prohibits such modification, but you can check that out.
You didn't mention what purpose you were going to make of the time counter. You could take a screen recording of the functioning time on your iPhone or iPad and overlay it with Picture in Picture.
So, you would take a recording of the timer as it was running:
And then overlay it with Picture in Picture onto your timeline and put the Date/Time title above it. It would display as shown in the preview screen in the screen shot below
Don't know if that's the look that you want.
-- Rich
I doubt that the Date/Time title can be modified to show seconds. It would take some hacking, if it could be done at all. As I recall, the iMovie license prohibits such modification, but you can check that out.
You didn't mention what purpose you were going to make of the time counter. You could take a screen recording of the functioning time on your iPhone or iPad and overlay it with Picture in Picture.
So, you would take a recording of the timer as it was running:
And then overlay it with Picture in Picture onto your timeline and put the Date/Time title above it. It would display as shown in the preview screen in the screen shot below
Don't know if that's the look that you want.
-- Rich
Pretty ingenious. I just don't think that it is possible to modify the iMovie Date/Time title.
You might need to search for a Date/Timer that you can import into an iMovie project and overlay onto your
timeline.
-- Rich
I have no idea what the license for iMovie says, but I can't imagine displaying seconds in the time would be an issue. The file that contains the text generator is located at
/Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/PlugIns/MediaProviders/MotionEffect.fxp/Contents/Resources/Templates.localized/Titles.localized/Lower Thirds.localized/
It is a Motion document.
I did opening the file in Motion, saving it as a new name, and putting it in there, but it does not appear in iMovie.
I was able to mess with motion on a friends computer. I don't own Motion, but I found this:
Ideally I would like the format to look more like this with a leading zero on the time:
Great! You found the answer.
Before putting in your timer you can merge the clips by exporting the project to your desktop and then importing it back into iMovie as one large clip. That might avoid having to adjust the title for each clip, since there would only be one clip.
-- Rich
Can you copy over your FCPX modied title into iMovie from your friend's computer onto your computer? Don't know if that would work. iMovie doesn't accept plug-ins. However, iMovie shares a lot of architecture with FCPX, so it might be worth a try.
-- Rich
So I got it working pretty awesome like in FCPX on my friends computer...I just don't like the price of FCPX, and can't use David's computer every time I do work.
I dislike how I have to adjust the title for each clip, and based on the way it works, you can't just drag across the entire timeline.
The Date/Time file appears to be the same file in iMovie as it is in FCPX...
I tried that, but when I saved it, it said something about not working for earlier versions. I am seeing if I can pull can older version of Motion from his TimeMachine backup.,
It has to be separate clips because it bases the time start on the file creation time and date. if you merge them into one, it will show like it all happened at the same time.
iMovie Date/Time - Seconds
