[PD] using PD/GEM to generate timecode overlay

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Thu Nov 3 03:14:22 CET 2011


You need to generate a symbol, then Pd won't strip the zeros off.  You can do that with:

[makefilename %02d]

That will give you just hh.  You could do one of those per hh mm ss SSS, then combine them into a list and feed it thru [zexy/list2symbol :]

.hc

On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:45 PM, Mikael Fernstrom wrote:

> I need to generate live timecode to overlay on a video of a cinema projection screen.
> 
> So far PD/GEM works fine, but does anybody have a quick-and-easy suggestion for formatting numbers/strings fed into [text2d] to get leading zeros?
> 
> My desired format is hh:mm:ss:SSS
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> /Mikael
> 
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