How to Add Date/Time Stamp to VideoPad Professional video editor

TracyLeigh

I am new to VideoPad Professional Video Editor and have read and watched everything I can find. I cannot figure out how to add a date/time stamp to all my videos. Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions. Nothing is working. Thank you in advance.

Tracy

borate

To add a simple static time click the Add Objects button on the toolbar, then Add Simple Text. Adjust size, position, outline, shadow, font, etc.

Type the date/time and place the text clip on a track that's higher than the background...

In Videopad, under the Add Text tab there are several clocks available, but that's not likely what you have in mind.

If it's 'rolling' time that you have in mind, check out the Prism HELP file, where this seems to be possible. Prism.

TracyLeigh

I am really having trouble with this time stamp on VideoPad Professional Video Editor. I figured it out about two months ago and came back to do it again and can't figure how I did it the first time. PLEASE, I need help. I am adding Simple Text and putting this in: %MM% %DD% %YYYY% %HH% %MIN%

But rather than changing to the time, it is keeping that formula. Please I need explicit instructions for adding a time stamp. I am losing my mind.

borate

Check this out. Also, view the related links below this AI answer.

TracyLeigh

Did you read my text?? I am adding Simple Text and putting this in: %MM% %DD% %YYYY% %HH% %MIN%

But rather than changing to the time, it is keeping that formula in my video.

Please I need explicit instructions for adding a time stamp. I have already tried everything that is online and that you are sending me. Are you a real person or AI? I need a real person.

borate

Definitely a 'real' person.

As the first paragraph in the link above indicates: "VideoPad Video Editor Simple Text tool does not dynamically convert percentage formulas like %MM% or %HH% into real-time clocks; those variables belong to recording utilities like Debut." Or perhaps Prism.

In order to get actual time text to show, create it as literal text in the editor. It will be an overlay on a higher track than the background.

You state "I figured it out." If you ever do that again, be sure to share it here. File a suggestion. Refer to this thread.

TracyLeigh

This is a video of various frames that each have different dates and times. So I cannot input a date or time because won't it show the same date and time for ALL the video? It will not change for each frame which has a different date and time, will it? Also, you refer to Prism, is Prism something that will work in conjunction with VideoPad Professional, or is it to be used separately?

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Borate, in the video link that you refer to, the guy says to "go to the right and click and search for time code." There is NO time code or timecode in VideoPad Professional Video Editor. Have you tried to do it yourself? This guy in the video is not even using VideoPad Professional! Is there another person in your organization who can help me? I know for a FACT I have done this before and have proof in emails I have sent to support.

borate

Method 1 in the above linked AI-generated text (not video) was incorrect. Updating that...

The formula tags you are remembering (%MM%, %DD%, %YYYY%, %HH%, %MIN%) belong to Debut Video Capture Software, which burns the real-world recorded clock time into a file while it is recording. Once you bring a clip into VideoPad, it treats text fields as standard text and cannot evaluate those specific percent-sign variables.

While related, Prism and Debut are separate programs that are fully functional for a short while on a trial basis. You might check them out.

Clips imported into the VP bin start with a counter at zero. They don't inherit timecode from the source clip.
When clips are placed on the timeline, it begins at zero. And, like the source clips in the bin, the counter increments to the end. No individual clip codes on the timeline.

That said, start times for counters can be set in the text composer window...

Thus, timeline clips would each have their own counter when they are individually added to the overlay track, as in this rough example...

Counter.mp4 If this doesn't accomplish what you have in mind suggest that you write the company again and provide your earlier supportive emails.