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Old January 30th, 2007, 02:56 PM   #1
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Creating a Timer in AE

I need a 10 minute timer in the form of minutes:seconds:milliseconds. Before going about it the LONG way (creating every frame), is there a generator or anything I can use that I'm missing?
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Old January 30th, 2007, 07:18 PM   #2
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I use a program called XNote Stopwatch
I then set the colours of the backgrounds and numerics for easy chromakeyiing, I set my timer countdown and run camtasia studio. I capture the video and then reimport that (i use Vegas)
This is then overlaid on the video track, and resized with pan and crop positioning. If i want it to be pretier, u can also use an animated lower third to "frame" the timer
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Old January 31st, 2007, 12:27 AM   #3
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XNote Stopwatch? I've never heard of it... I'm running this on a mac. Compatible?
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Old January 31st, 2007, 06:46 AM   #4
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not sure, u might need to check that
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Old January 31st, 2007, 11:06 AM   #5
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So the question still stands... AE timer available?
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Old January 31st, 2007, 12:46 PM   #6
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It's not milliseconds, but you could use the timecode feature (under video effects) which generates timecode and displays it in hh:mm:ss:ff on the image. Apply it to a layer, pre-compose it, then retime the precomp layer to -100% (reversing it). Mask out the parts you don't want.

Sure, the numbers in the last area only go up to 24/25/30, but they go by quickly enough. You could even use cc force motion blur to make the frame numbers looks blurry.
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Old January 31st, 2007, 03:22 PM   #7
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good call, thanks. That's what i was looking for
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