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  Expression to display remaining time in timecode

  Posted by Jon Mendo on March 11, 2020 at 5:51 am

  Hey Smart People!
  I would LOVE some help with this and I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I would like to display the remaining comp time in timecode as the source text.

  I have several comps that I am rendering out to run through a media server and I would like to give my Resoulme Operator a way to see on the content how much time is remaining for each clip. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks!
  Mendo

  Andrei Popa replied 6 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Andrei Popa

  March 11, 2020 at 9:03 am

  This works. You can also remove some values if you would like to not see them.

  
function rawToTimecode(number) {
var seconds = Math.floor(number);
var minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60);
var hours = Math.floor(minutes / 60);
var frames = Math.round((number - seconds) / thisComp.frameDuration);
return [hours, minutes, seconds, frames]
.map(
function (n) {
return (n > 10) ? n : "0" + n
}
).join(":");
}
var rawTime = thisComp.duration - time;
rawToTimecode(rawTime)

  Andrei
  My Envato portfolio.
• 

  Andrei Popa

  March 11, 2020 at 10:46 am

  I forgot to subtract the over-60 values in the end. This should be the correct way:
  function rawToTimecode(number){
var seconds = Math.floor(number);
var minutes = Math.floor(seconds / 60);
var hours = Math.floor(minutes / 60);
var frames = Math.round((number-seconds)/thisComp.frameDuration);
return [hours,minutes%60,seconds%60,frames]
.map(
function(n){
return(n>10) ? n : "0"+n
}
).join(":");
}
var rawTime = thisComp.duration-time;
rawToTimecode(rawTime)

  Andrei
  My Envato portfolio.

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