Easy Counter

Presets contain a snapshot of your effect configuration. 15 built-in presets are available.

When you save parameter configuration to a file on disk, this file can later be loaded to recreate the same effect configuration. Presets generated in one video application can be used by the same plug-in running in a different video application.

The following options are available:

• Clip (default) — When selected, time follows the clip’s own playback time. It is still possible to provide an initial offset through the Delay (secs) parameter and/or to speed up or slow down time through the Speed parameter.
• Keyframable Parameter — When selected, a single parameter becomes available and must be keyframed in order to determine what time value is ultimately displayed.

The following options are available:

• Up (default) — The timer counts up, starting from zero, unless a custom start time has been specified through the Delay (secs) parameter.

  Time passes at the same speed as the clip, unless a Speed different than 1 has been set.

• Down — The timer counts down. When the Match Duration of Clip parameter is on, the start time is such that the timer reaches zero at the end of the clip.

  When custom Time Offset or Time Multiplier have been set, the timer may reach zero sooner or later than the end of the clip.

When non-zero, this parameter determines how many seconds should pass before the count begins.

This parameter allows you to keep the counter visible on screen, but having the count start at a specific time, e.g. to match an event.

When Source is set to Clip this parameter allows you to change the speed at which time passes, relative to the clip.

A value of 2 means time will pass twice as fast as the clip’s. A value of 0.5 means time will pass half as fast the clip’s.

This parameter is not available when Source is set to Keyframable Parameter.

The following options are available:

• Seconds — The counter only displays seconds.
• Minutes — The counter displays minutes, followed by seconds (MM:SS). The default separator may be customized through parameters in the Separators section.
• Hours (default) — The counter displays hours, minutes and seconds (HH :MM:SS). The default separators may be customized through parameters in the Separators section.

When enabled, any leading time units that are zero are skipped until the first non-zero unit.

For example, if Greatest Unit Displayed is set to Hours, Sub-second Intervals is set to Hundredths and 13.5 seconds have passed, time is displayed as 00:00:13.50. When this option is on, hours and minutes are skipped because they are zero, so 13.50 is displayed instead.

The following options are available:

• None — No sub-second intervals are displayed.
• Tenths — One digit displays tenths of a second. The separator between seconds and this unit may be customized through parameters under the Separators section.
• Hundredths (default) — Two digits displays hundredths of a second. The separator between seconds and this unit may be customized through parameters under the Separators section.
• Thousandths — Three digits displays thousandths of a second. The separator between seconds and this unit may be customized through parameters under the Separators section.

Font used to render the counter.

Monospaced fonts render great no matter how the text is aligned relative to the Location on-screen. When using other types of fonts, unwanted shifts or flickering may occur due to different digits being represented by glyphs of varying sizes. In these situations, it helps to align text left or right to avoid sudden shifts to the layout.

Some fonts encode information about their ascender and descender heights that makes it hard to automatically center text vertically within a given box. If you happen to use a solid background or border, and notice that text appears too low or too high relative to the bounding box, use the Vertical Offset parameter to align text to your liking.

The following options are available:

• Left — The counter is rendered to the right of the current Position.
• Center (default) — The counter is centered relative to the current Position.
• Right — The counter is rendered to the left of the current Position.

Allow ligatures to be used, assuming the selected font supports them.

Ligatures aren’t common when displaying digits, but this option may be helpful when custom Separators have been set, and said separators may contain glyphs that support ligatures.

Enable to have text scale in/out as it reaches whole second intervals.

Enable to have text wobble sideways.

Enable to have text flip vertically or horizontally to reveal the next counter. This effect is more suitable when Greatest Unit Displayed is set to Seconds only.

By default, the counter uses a colon to separate hours, minutes and seconds, and a period to separate seconds from sub-second intervals: HH:MM:SS.mmm. Enable this parameter to specify one or more custom separators, which may include multiple characters and spaces.

Enable to force the sub-second interval separator to always be drawn, even if no sub-second units are displayed.

This parameter is helpful when you wish to append a suffix, e.g. “secs” to the counter, even when no sub-second units are visible.

Enables motion blur at different quality settings. The higher the quality, the more samples are used. Multiple samples are blended together to produce a single frame of output.

• Off (default) — Output frames are rendered without motion blur. This is the fastest setting.
• Low
  Combine 4 samples to produce each output frame.
• Medium
  Combine 8 samples to produce each output frame.
• High
  Combine 16 samples to produce each output frame. This is the slowest, highest quality setting.

Multiple samples are combined to produce a single output frame with motion blur

The Shutter Angle slider controls the size (aperture) of the shutter used to simulate motion blur. The size of the shutter determines how long light is allowed to pass through the lens. The angle is set to 180° by default. A shutter angle of 360° means that samples are collected for the entire duration of the frame.
Setting a value of zero means that you want the shutter to collect light only once, which is equivalent to turning motion blur off.

The Shutter Offset slider controls the moment in time when the shutter opens and closes, relative to the duration of the frame. The offset is set to 0 by default. An offset of zero means the shutter is perfectly centered over the moment in time when the frame occurs. The shutter is therefore open an equal amount of time before and after the current frame occurs.

The Shutter Angle and Shutter Offset parameters are only available when motion blur is enabled.

Allows you to match the working color space used by the plugin to the current Timeline color space set for the project and/or individual timelines in DaVinci Resolve.

This parameter is neither available nor necessary in Apple and Adobe video apps, since our plugins can be automatically matched to the working color space.