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  • Countdown timer

    Posted by Jack Fox on December 6, 2008 at 9:19 pm

    Why, after all these years, am I still looking for a countdown timer. In the past I would add as a step in the print to video process, but now I am exporting as quicktime. Does anyone have a link to a good timer?

    jmf

    Jack Fox replied 17 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Jack Fox

    December 7, 2008 at 1:38 am

    Is it okay to use the Broadcast Countdown Clock (below), for Public Broadcast Stations? jmf

  • Michael Gissing

    December 7, 2008 at 1:54 am

    That countdown is the UK, BBC style. You should check the delivery spec of your broadcaster to see if that is acceptable.

    Using the text generator in FCP you can make a simple 10-2 countdown in minutes.

    I am sure you found the BBC one from a search of this forum and out there in Google land is no doubt a heap more. Personally, I took a few extra minutes to make my own with a nice picture of my edit suite as a background. I cut one frame of tone as pips and then made a quicktime in a few codecs to use.

  • Peter Wiggins

    December 8, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    Here is the link if anybody wants it 🙂

    Broadcast Countdown Clock

    Peter

  • Jack Fox

    December 8, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Thanks Peter,

    I added the single frame 400 hz countdown beep from 10, and I think it will make the station editors happy.

    jmf

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