• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  How to pause/stop a Time Expression ?

  Posted by Mike Jones on July 11, 2014 at 11:01 am

  Hello,

  I am making a Soccer TV broadcast template.

  I have this expression below that counts the time from 00:00.

  Now how can I make it stop/pause when it reaches 45:00 (The end of first half).

  Thanks.

  countspeed = 1;
clockStart = 0;

  function times(n){
  if (n < 10) return "0" + n else return "" + n
  }

  clockTime = clockStart +countspeed*(time - inPoint);

  if (clockTime < 0){
  minus = "-";
  clockTime = -clockTime;
  }else{
  minus = "";
  }

  t = Math.floor(clockTime);
h = Math.floor(t/3600);
min = Math.floor((t%3600)/60);
sec = Math.floor(t%60);
ms = clockTime.toFixed(3).substr(-3);
minus + times(h) + ":" + times(min) + ":" + times(sec) + "." + ms

  Dan Ebberts replied 12 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

• 

  Dan Ebberts

  July 11, 2014 at 4:14 pm

  This change would make it stop at 45:00:

  clockTime = Math.min(clockStart +countspeed*(time – inPoint),45*60);

  Dan
• 

  Mike Jones

  July 11, 2014 at 7:08 pm

  Thanks it worked.

  Now if I want it to start at 45:00 (for the second half) and stop at 90:00

  I tried to edit these two expression lines:

  clockStart = 2700; //(2700 so it can start at 45:00)

  clockTime = Math.min(clockStart +countspeed*(time – inPoint),90*60);

  But when I try to change the second expression to 90*60, the time returns to 00:00 when it reaches 59:59.

  How can I make it work ?
• 

  Dan Ebberts

  July 11, 2014 at 8:28 pm

  Something like this maybe:

  
countspeed = 1;
clockStart = 0;
periodDur = 45*60;
halfTimeDur = 15*60;

  function times(n){
  if (n < 10) return "0" + n else return "" + n
  }

  if (time > (inPoint + periodDur + halfTimeDur)){
t = time - (inPoint + periodDur + halfTimeDur);
clockTime = Math.min(periodDur + countspeed*t,90*60);
}else{
t = time - inPoint;
clockTime = Math.min(clockStart + countspeed*t,45*60);
}
if (clockTime < 0){
minus = "-";
clockTime = -clockTime;
}else{
minus = "";
}
t = Math.floor(clockTime);
h = Math.floor(t/3600);
min = Math.floor((t%3600)/60);
sec = Math.floor(t%60);
ms = clockTime.toFixed(3).substr(-3);
minus + times(h) + ":" + times(min) + ":" + times(sec) + "." + ms


  It’s not going to work quite right though if you change countspeed or clockStart.

  Dan

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up