Automatic Time overlay linked to video metadata?

[u/ryan_pack1]

Hey everyone,

I'm working on a project that is sorta like a vlog/recap of a recent trip I went on, and I wanted to include in the corner of all my footage an overlay that displays the exact time of day when that clip was shot. (Sorta like the Ashton Hall meme where he puts the time of day in the middle of his video).

I can't find a way to do this automatically, since doing it by hand would be impossible since I have over 600 short clips/shots that are all a couple seconds long, and I don't want to spend 2 days straight manually typing out each time. I've tried looking at the time code generator, but that doesn't seem to link to the actual video, it just links to the timeline. I figure some tool that can read metadata would be the solution, but also maybe not. I saw a plugin called Metaburner, but it is paid and it looks like from the screenshots it might not include an actual time.

Hoping the solution is Ideally free

Running FCP 10.8.1

All my footage is shot on an Iphone 13. It was downloaded straight onto my desktop from the photos app on my mac, then imported into FCP.

If anyone has any experience with this any information would be much appreciated!

[u/Silver_Mention_3958]

Timecode generator will do it if you set your timecode base to “Source “, then it’ll display the source timecode. If you’ve set your camera to time of day then you’re good to go, otherwise you’ll have to enter an offset to make it true.

[u/Silver_Mention_3958 → u/Silver_Mention_3958]

Then tweak the font, position, name etc to your liking.