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Count-down
I need to have a time Count-down from 10minutes. Anybody have any ide on how that is done????
Thanx
Tommy -
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yo,
look at the text animation presets, if u have AE 6.5. In the folder expressions u will find: current time format, i believe. throw that on some text in a pre comp of 10min. then time reverse that pre comp in the final comp. that should do it, if I am not mistaking here.
grtz
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if you have 6.5 it’s pretty easy using the text animation preset “Current Time Format” in the expressions group. It shows Hours:Min:Sec:Frames. You can always mask out the hours and frames (the rapid frame numbers only counts down from 30 in my experience). It will count ascending so make a pre comp it, enable time remaping and reverse the begining and end keyframes.
I’m not an expressions expert but it looks like all the preset does is enter an expression into the Source text atribute of timeToCurrentFormat()
Maybe there is a better expression but this worked for me
Hope it helps
Rob
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I’m not an expressions guru at all, but I wonder if you put a well placed ‘-‘ in the expression if it wouldn’t count down backwards? Worth a try maybe.
Chris Smith
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interesting thought and I tried a bunch of places with the -, and multiplying by -1. the best I got was a cyclops smile in the expression.
Rob
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I made one for our new-years party by using the effect Video:Timecode, and changing the default frames/sec to hundredths of a second. …and of course, run it backward.
Caveat: Couldn’t seem to change the font.Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezemotiongraphics.com
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