Broadcast timer in minutes and seconds?

CitizenJoe

Often, at the beginning of a piece, I activate a scene with music in it which runs for the entire piece. This could be 20 minutes, or it could be an hour... I find myself wanting to know where I am in the music a lot, so that I can time cues to the music.

I spent some time figuring this out tonight and the picture shows what I have ended up with: a timer is activated with the music and linked to a broadcaster. A listener in each subsequent scene takes the number without the decimal place, for some reason and so I use a calculator to divide by 1000 to get the decimal place back and another to divide by 60 to have the number expressed in minutes and a percentage of minutes. This is fine, but what I really want is minutes and seconds. Is there a way to do it?

Many thanks,

Hugh

Michel

Did you try my TimerTool? You can download it in the first post.

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Michel

fifou

Or maybe with TimeCode Trigger and Timecode Jump user actors ?
http://troikatronix.com/troikatronixforum/discussion/298/timecode-calculator-comparator#Item_10 (user actors on the bottom of the discussion). But in order to make it work, you have to use movie player (with QT audio files).

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Philippe

CitizenJoe

@Skulpture: your timer tool is fantastic! Thanks!!

Cheers,
Hugh

Skulpture

All @Michel work @CitizenJoe :)

Kathmandale

And very fine work it is. Thanks @Michel thats a great tool.

Michel

thanks @Kathmandale
you are all welcome. :-)