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Difficult to find time stamps specially after making a maximum projection of the z stacks. Would love to know how you are using loci plugin to get the time stamp! I am not familiar with programing but I do have the loci plugin installed would love a fix I could apply without having to write codes
> Hello,
>
> I had such a piece of discussion off-list with Dan White.
> As I work with stk files, i have access to the image creation time (this is
> accurate even you pause the acquisition), I have access to this info with
> the LOCI plugin and some code Melissa kindly sent me.
>
> What would be of interest is a tool like a time slider as you can get it in
> Metamorph or in Imaris...or then : "
>
>> Are you suggesting that you would like to see the timestamp in seconds
>> displayed as part of the label at the top of the image window?"
>>
>
>
>
> This is probably a particular situation when you have to pause acquisition
> for one or two acquisitions but in this case dynamic measurements would not
> be accurate if based on time intervals (?!)
>
> Thank you for your reply,
>
> Best,
>
> Fabrice.
>
> 2010/8/26 Curtis Rueden <
[hidden email]>
>
>> Hi Fabrice,
>>
>> as follow up to a previous mail, i just wonder why the time dimension is
>>> always depicted as t (time frame) and not in real units as sec.
>>> Indeed, using the LOCI plugin it is possible to retrieve metadata from
>>> almost every format.
>>>
>>
>> The Bio-Formats Importer does populate the frame interval in the image
>> properties when that information is available. In the case of variable time
>> between frames, we average the times and populate the frame interval with
>> the mean (though the eventual goal is for ImageJ to support variable time
>> frames directly). And I believe that in general, ImageJ uses the frame
>> interval value for the frames per second when animating—adjustable by right
>> clicking the Play button next to the time slider.
>>
>> Thus it would be interesting to have direct acces to those parameters.
>>>
>>
>> Are you suggesting that you would like to see the timestamp in seconds
>> displayed as part of the label at the top of the image window?
>>
>
> Yes this is what I think about!
>
>>
>> As example, if you do time-lapse and have to pause your acquisition for one
>>> or two acquisition, you could not use the time interval, but the metadata
>>> acqusitionTime is still relevant.
>>>
>>
>> Whether such a pause is properly recorded in the metadata depends on the
>> file format. As I said above, Bio-Formats averages the timestamps, so you
>> should still get a reasonable frame interval in the properties, as long as
>> the correct values are really present in metadata.
>>
>> -Curtis
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:48 AM, fabrice senger <
[hidden email]
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> as follow up to a previous mail, i just wonder why the time dimension is
>>> always depicted as t (time frame) and not in real units as sec.
>>> Indeed, using the LOCI plugin it is possible to retrieve metadata from
>>> almost every format.
>>>
>>> Thus it would be interesting to have direct acces to those parameters.
>>>
>>> As example, if you do time-lapse and have to pause your acquisition for
>> one
>>> or two acquisition, you could not use the time interval, but the metadata
>>> acqusitionTime is still relevant.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Fabrice.
>>>
>>