Bug 383629

Summary:	[Feature request] counter / dynamic text with extended properties
Product:	[Applications] kdenlive	Reporter:	apu.nahasapeemapetilon.kwik-e-mart
Component:	Video Effects & Transitions	Assignee:	Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	apu.nahasapeemapetilon.kwik-e-mart, fritzibaby
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	17.04.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description apu.nahasapeemapetilon.kwik-e-mart 2017-08-17 12:55:54 UTC

I wish I could add a counter and/or a dynamic text with the following properties:
- text should be displayed in the video on a certain position (background color transparent, like the dynamic text)
- counter is independent of a timeframe
- counter can be configured (for example just displaying minutes and seconds, adding an offset (e.g starting at a certain minute))

Maybe see also the discussion on
https://github.com/mltframework/mlt/pull/211

Note to the Counter: Also the manual claims that there could be a defect - "There may be a defect here because it appears the No Background check box does not remove the background from the counter."
https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/Clips#Counter

Background:
I have filme some football games of the amateur leagues of my club. I use kdenlive to add the current result, the names of the teams, the logos of the club and now I want to add the current time of the game after the referee starts the game. I haven't found any solution to display the current time of the game yet.

Comment 1 Vincent PINON 2021-02-14 20:25:33 UTC

MLT has a dynamic text producer (created for shotcut), we could expose it in Kdenlive (TODO)

Comment 2 Anders Lund 2021-09-14 06:57:04 UTC

I have just edited a video where I use the counter generator. I used chroma key to make the background transperant, and transform to move the text where I wanted it. It ended up looking somewhat pixelated, since it was scaled down so much, and I can't set the text properties. So I second this!

How hard would it be to add it to the existing dynamic text effect?

Many cameras (dji, opencamera on android for example) generates subtitle text with various metadata like exposure and location - it would be nice with a way to expose those as text as well. They can typically be treated like comma separated records.