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After Effects Physical Time Clock
I am looking for something to help me use After Effects. I’m not even sure if this is something that is available, but just hear me out!
I use After Effects frequently at my job. Every video that I make is time-limited, so I am constantly watching the time below the viewer to see where I’m at. I have bad vision, so it would be awesome to have a big time display to show me where I’m at in my timeline at all times. It would be best if this could be a physical device, maybe connected by USB or Bluetooth, that I could place underneath my monitors.
Someone please tell me if this is available or if I’m just dreaming!
Just for reference, I’m on a 27″ iMac, running Mac OS 10.7.3, with 8GB RAM, and a 512MB ATI HD 4850 video card.
Thanks in advance!
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I don’t know of any devices you could use, but you could put a text layer in your video, twirl open the text, “alt + click” the Source Text and put the following expression:
timeToTimecode(t = time + thisComp.displayStartTime, timecodeBase = 30, isDuration = false)
When you are creating the expressions if you click the arrow and check the global headings, you can choose from multiple time code formats.
That would put a timecode display in your window. You could even right click it and make it a guide layer and don’t even have to worry about turning it off when you render.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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