Camera Text Overlay For Playblast?

[curiosa]

Does anyone know how to customize text info to be displayed on a playblast? Including text info like Shot, artist, camera name and date would be helpful for layout stage while creating general playblasts.

[joojaa]

make a heads up display. Heres a quick example (meant for you to modify execute in script editor)

CODE
global proc string[] showStringAndTimecode (string $string,int $timeBase)
{
   string $build="",$timecode[];
   int $time,$temp,$times[]={60*60*$timeBase,60*$timeBase,$timeBase};
   $time=currentTime -q;
   for ($each in $times){
   $temp=$time/$each;
   $time=$time-$temp*$each;
   if ($temp<10)
      $build+="0";
   $build+=($temp+":");
   }
   if ($time<10)
     $build+="0";
   $build+=$time;
   $timecode[0]=$string;
   $timecode[1]=$build;
   return $timecode;
}

headsUpDisplay -removePosition 0 0; //clear the previous one
headsUpDisplay -section          0
              -block            0
              -blockAlignment   "left"
              -blockSize        "medium"
              -label            ""
              -dataFontSize    "large"
              -command
               //set your text and timebase here!!          
               "showStringAndTimecode(\"Scene 12, Shot 2\",24)"
               -attachToRefresh  timecode;
expression -n "hudRefresh"
          -s ("headsUpDisplay"+
            "-refresh timecode;")  
          -o "" -ae 1 -uc al; //make sure it refreshes duirng playback.