How to Add a Timer to a Video?

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Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forums, and I am hosting my first SASUKE tournament this Saturday. I am planning to record everything and make it into one big special just like how they do on SASUKE. I have a timer added as an attatchment to this thread, but I do not know how to add it to my video. Well neverminbd about the attachment LOL I cannot upload EXE files. I'm using Camtasia Studio 7 if anyone needed to know what program i'm using. Anyways if anyone can help me with this it would mean a lot! Thanks!

P.s. If anyone has any of the audio files like the final stage start beeps feel free to share them on this thread! I already have the first and second stage startbeeps file.

[Philip]

What's up floridarampage ;D
I honestly have no clue how. But I am sure people know how.

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Hey Philip! I'm searching for some videos on YouTube at the moment to see if I can find any. I'm building unstable bridges with my grandfather in about an hour and a half . Anyways thanks for helping though! I'll post back on this thread if I find a solution.

[Philip]

Jun 26, 2012 12:36:37 GMT -5 @kanzenseihamaniac said:

Hey Philip! I'm searching for some videos on YouTube at the moment to see if I can find any. I'm building unstable bridges with my grandfather in about an hour and a half . Anyways thanks for helping though! I'll post back on this thread if I find a solution.

Youtube definitely would have a tutorial.

[RiderLeangle]

You need some kind of editing program that can allows for multiple videos to be played at the same time in a spot... I use Premiere for that, not sure what other programs can do it though.

As for Final Stage start sound I've had that for a while, here ya go
www.mediafire.com/?m3k624tp7w63on6

[Deleted]

Thanks Rider!

[dudesky1000]

I was actually wondering how to do this myself in Final Cut, I held a few competitions last year and made the first stage the only one that was timed, but I always jacked up the time limit to make it so nobody could time out... then again nobody ever beat the Third stage in 4 competitions so I never had to deal with the Final Stage.

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Cool, i'm still searching for a way >_>. What I may do is have the startbeeps and no timer, but that would really stink. Also, my grandfather and I finished the first unstable bridge today and the second one tomorrow! Hooray for a backyard obstacle course ! I'll find a way eventually!

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Long post... didn't care to shorten it....

Just search timer on google, click the first result, and screen record the timer, than put the timer in the top right corner (Or wherever) of the video. So if it's a 60 second limit course, record www.online-stopwatch.com/ at 60 seconds, let it play, and record it.

Camstia is great at recording the screen, but a joke at video editing. I'd recommend Sony Vegas Studio. It's cheap if you want to go the legal route, and allows for multiple layers of footage at the same time.

Also, if you want the actual Ninja Warrior/Sasuke timer, like the one you see on the show, if you are savvy enough you can actually pull it off.

Find a HQ sasuke tournament. I have no clue where you could find one of these things, a mod might help you there.

Put into Sony Vegas editor, and cut out the timer part of a course run. (So if you are watching a 120 second run, cut out everything except the timer part and just have that.)

Than overlay the timer from Sasuke with your video, and it should look decent... actually it'll look kind of crappy because you only can cut video in squares, so some parts of Sasuke will still be seen.

You'd have to.... this gets complicated.... cut out the timer so it JUST shows the timer, and than take the other portions of the timer, go into GIMP or Photoshop, make everything transparent except the timer theme, and put that back into Sony Vegas as a PNG picture. So you'd have 1.timer 2.Timer PNG of just the outer portions with transparency around the boarders, so you don't see the original Sasuke HQ file 3.Your footage.

Hopefully that wasn't entirely confusing, but I know it was lol. Anyways it isn't that hard, so good luck.

[RiderLeangle]

Jul 5, 2012 2:10:15 GMT -5 @jpjuice23 said:

Than overlay the timer from Sasuke with your video, and it should look decent... actually it'll look kind of crappy because you only can cut video in squares, so some parts of Sasuke will still be seen.

You'd have to.... this gets complicated.... cut out the timer so it JUST shows the timer, and than take the other portions of the timer, go into GIMP or Photoshop, make everything transparent except the timer theme, and put that back into Sony Vegas as a PNG picture. So you'd have 1.timer 2.Timer PNG of just the outer portions with transparency around the boarders, so you don't see the original Sasuke HQ file 3.Your footage.

You mean like this?
Kinda crappy around the curves but hey, at least it exists already, I had made this a while back


EDIT: Just remembered I have a 130 second clock recording as well
www.mediafire.com/?8e422p6otybpc3o

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Thanks guys! I'll be sure to look into buying Sony Vegas, but I may not buy it until later this year.

[Philip]

Jul 5, 2012 11:17:14 GMT -5 @kanzenseihamaniac said:

Thanks guys! I'll be sure to look into buying Sony Vegas, but I may not buy it until later this year.

I'm pretty sure there is a 30 day trial or even a free alternative to Sony Vegas.

[RiderLeangle]

Jul 5, 2012 21:02:16 GMT -5 Philip said:

Jul 5, 2012 11:17:14 GMT -5 @kanzenseihamaniac said:

Thanks guys! I'll be sure to look into buying Sony Vegas, but I may not buy it until later this year.

I'm pretty sure there is a 30 day trial or even a free alternative to Sony Vegas.

There's a free alternative to every program if you know what I mean

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Jul 5, 2012 9:19:38 GMT -5 RiderLeangle said:

Jul 5, 2012 2:10:15 GMT -5 @jpjuice23 said:

Than overlay the timer from Sasuke with your video, and it should look decent... actually it'll look kind of crappy because you only can cut video in squares, so some parts of Sasuke will still be seen.

You'd have to.... this gets complicated.... cut out the timer so it JUST shows the timer, and than take the other portions of the timer, go into GIMP or Photoshop, make everything transparent except the timer theme, and put that back into Sony Vegas as a PNG picture. So you'd have 1.timer 2.Timer PNG of just the outer portions with transparency around the boarders, so you don't see the original Sasuke HQ file 3.Your footage.

You mean like this?
Kinda crappy around the curves but hey, at least it exists already, I had made this a while back


EDIT: Just remembered I have a 130 second clock recording as well
www.mediafire.com/?8e422p6otybpc3o

Wow no that's exactly it! Nice going!

[RiderLeangle]

Thanks, I had made it for something I was planning on doing but haven't been able to get the video for yet