help with timecode

[Peter Bogdanoff]

This is what I use for minutes & seconds. You can extend it to include hours & frames.

You’ll want to do the send command at the frame interval (1/30) of a second.

on updateCurrTime
     put round(the currentTime of player “thePlayer" 1005 / 600) into theTime
      put theTime div 60 into theMin
      put theTime mod 60 into theSec
      if len(theSec) = 1 then put "0" & theSec into theSec
      put theMin & ":" & theSec into field "CurrTime"
      send "updateCurrTime" to me in 1 seconds
end updateCurrTime

Peter Bogdanoff
UCLA

On May 30, 2015, at 7:07 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Be aware I have no clue about drop, no drop etc so I am probably way off
> base here but..
> 
> It seems to me that first you need to make sure you're working in seconds,
> so you need to divide the currenttime by the timescale to get the total
> seconds.
> Then its just a matter of math.
> 
> Having said that, I may have an easy way to do the conversion.  The first
> thing to do would be to grab a padding number when your app starts up like
> so:
> 
> put 0 into tSeconds
> convert tSeconds to dateitems
> put (24 - (item -4 of tSeconds)) * 3600 into myAdjustment --the adjustment
> allows for timezone differences
> 
> gives an adjustment number of seconds that will be used later.
> 
> Then, it should be easy.
> 
> put ((the currenttime of player "yourplayer"  / the timescale of player
> "yourPlayer" ) + myAdjustment) into tCurrentTime
> convert tCurrentTime  to dateitems
> 
> At this point the hours of tCurrentTime should be item 4, minutes is 5, and
> seconds is 6.
> When displaying them, look at numberformat in the dictionary.
> 
> 
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Tim Selander <selander at tkf.att.ne.jp>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Listers,
>> 
>> I am trying to convert the currenttime of a player showing video into
>> standard video timecode -- hours:minutes:seconds:frames -- in both drop and
>> non-drop timecode. I'm not being too successful at it. As I struggled with
>> it, it occured to me I may be trying to re-invent the wheel.
>> 
>> Does anyone of a solution for turning the current time of an LC player
>> into time code that they could share?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
>> 
>> 
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