time units

[drkitty]

Hi, great tool. Is there any way to search for a frame based on seconds rather than the HH:MM:SS format?

[oaubert]

Hello

Could you be more specific ? Do you need to create annotations by entering timestamps in seconds ? While there is ATM no user interface to do this, it certainly can easily be implemented, but it depends on your needs.

[drkitty]

Our use of the tool is for psychology research. For computational reasons, we often convert the clock (HH:MM:SS) format to seconds. That is, it's easier to work in seconds when creating time-series functions, etc. Once we've made that conversion, it would be nice to be able to use the seconds, rather than the clock format, to search for a given frame. I believe Kino ( http://www.kinodv.org/article/static/2 ) does allow for multiple time formats, but of course, it's not really an annotation tool like Advene.

[oaubert]

I see two aspects in this : the time display, and the time input.

For the time display, the next release, which should come before the end of the summer, will provide a means to customize it globally (we had a request for instance to display timestamps as MM:SS only).

For the time input, we plan to have a more flexible input field, accommodating multiple time formats. Hopefully in the next release, but no promise on this.

[oaubert]

In the latest Advene release (0.44), timecode display can be customized (Edit/Preferences/Time related) to display seconds. On the input side, when entering timecodes, plain integers (e.g. 12345) are considered as milliseconds, floats (e.g. 12.345) are considered as seconds, and timecodes (00:12.345) are parsed as MM:SS or HH:MM:SS.