Alex Sprinkle
January 30th, 2007, 02:56 PM
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?
View Full Version : Creating a Timer in AE Alex Sprinkle January 30th, 2007, 02:56 PM 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? Peter Jefferson January 30th, 2007, 07:18 PM 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 Alex Sprinkle January 31st, 2007, 12:27 AM XNote Stopwatch? I've never heard of it... I'm running this on a mac. Compatible? Peter Jefferson January 31st, 2007, 06:46 AM not sure, u might need to check that Alex Sprinkle January 31st, 2007, 11:06 AM So the question still stands... AE timer available? Conor Ryan January 31st, 2007, 12:46 PM 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. Alex Sprinkle January 31st, 2007, 03:22 PM good call, thanks. That's what i was looking for |