Count up timer project or tutorial

I am new to Fusion.

I am editing a swimming video in Resolve and I would like to add a count up timer similar to what you would see in the corner of the frame of an Olympic video [minutes:seconds:milliseconds].

I tried using timecode, but I can't get it to act and look the way I want.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, does anyone have a similar Fusion project or know of a tutorial that might cover this?

Thanks,
Dave

Why isn't Timecode working for you?

Because timecode appears to be the top layer within Resolve and I can not seem to block out the "TC": [00:00:00]

Oh, I'm sorry, since you were asking about Fusion I thought you had already tried the Timecode modifier in Fusion's TXT+ tool.

That's where you want to look. It's pretty straight forward.

Add Text-tool, RC in the text field, select 'Timecode' and adjust the settings in the modifier tab to your liking.

Report back here in case you can't figure it out

Thanks to your instructions I was able to get it working.

However I can't figure out how to extend the timeline over 1,000 frames. Searching the manual is hard for this topic.

You have two number fields for your timeline on the left of the Render button.
The right most of those fields is the global end time. The left one is the render end time.
You can type any number you like into the Global End Time, people have used Fusion for rendering hours of footage without any problem.

Thanks, that worked great!

Next up I have to figure out how to carry the alpha channel when I export so I can import the timer over a graphic. I will start researching that now.

Glad I could help. Render to a file that supports an alpha channel, that should probably do it.
I don't know/use Resolve so I don't know which file format works best with it.

Image file formats that can carry an alpha: PNG, TIFF, OpenEXR, JPEG-2000 (not the regular jpeg, the one with the extension .jp2), Targa, DPX (not supported in all software).

I'm not as strong on video file formats. Some QT codecs can carry alpha, such as ProRes4444 and PhotoPNG. I would guess that some flavors DNxHD have alpha, also.