Adding a timer

There are no built in options for reading the time code of your video....  not sure if the video playbar shows the elapsed time or not??

You could probably build this functionality in but it would require building some kind of custom clock that increments by one at each second on the timeline, and would be a ton of work to build, especially for long videos.

Ann,

This is a sample I made for someone who wanted to score the user on how much of a video they watched.

The slide notes explain how it works.

You don't have to set it up as a quiz slide, you can transfer the time value to another variable when they click, and do with it what you want. Or if clicking hides the layer, the timer will stop (the variable won't continue to change), and you can use Variable1 like it is.

Walt, I love this solution, much more simple and elegant than the idea(s) I had floating around in my mind.  Brilliant way to use a couple of simple layers to increment the timer variable.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks, Brian.

Actually, the concept is originally from Michael Hinze. He has made a lot of timers this way. And I can tell you from experience that I can't get it to work without using 2 layers, but I have been successful using it on masters

Ah, yes, Michael is brilliant.  I was thinking that this might be something that could be done on a master slide, good to know.  All you'd need to do is reset the variable at the beginning of the slide if you are using a timer on multiple slides and need it to start from zero...