Frame counter or timer

Does anyone know of a technique to show a timer inset or a frame count in the frame? I am making movies of screen captures as jpgs (roughly 3000 images). I tried the plug-in called Timer from cf/x and it crashed every way i set it up.
Any ideas? thanks!
macbook Mac OS X (10.4.10)
macbook Mac OS X (10.4.10)

In case anyone else has this problem, I thought I'd close this question with what I've learned. The timer's I tried both worked with imported videos, like QT, but not with a string of stills (jpgs). I did export the stills to QT and then import to iMovie, but the timing was not precise enough... i.e., it was more than 10% off from actual time elapsed, and this was a case where precision mattered, not aesthetics. So the question is answered, but the problem is still out there.
I really wish the jpg metadata could be captured and displayed before using QT or iMovie

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