• Adobe After Effects

  Timer expression shifting position with count

  Posted by Dustin Parsons on December 19, 2016 at 6:33 pm

  I made a 2 min countdown timer but I’m having trouble with it’s position moving as the numbers change. Is there any way to lock down the position so it doesn’t move horizontally with every number change?

  Can’t figure out how to embed an animated gif so here it is:
  https://giphy.com/gifs/l0HlIuzWDj86PYN0I

  And here’s the expression I’m using:
  countspeed = -1;
clockStart = 120;

  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(min) + ":" + times(sec)

  Dustin Parsons replied 9 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  December 19, 2016 at 7:02 pm

  Would it help if you set the text layer to left-justified instead of centered?

  Walter Soyka
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  Dustin Parsons

  December 19, 2016 at 7:24 pm

  That would help! Haha, can’t believe I hadn’t tried that. Thanks Walter

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