Countdown Timer/Clock displayed over video

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

There are some great FREE (they would like a donation) plug-ins from “Too Much Too Soon”.

https://mattias.nu/plugins/

One of them is called “Clock” and you can keyframe any number to count-down (or count-up) and key that over the video.

[Tsunamibob]

Works perfectly! Thanks!

[Tony]

By far the best countdown or countup clock I have found is available from digital heaven (Martin Baker’s company).

Martin is great with customer feedback and modifying his plugin’s based on direct feedback he receives from end users.

The clock plugin he has allows alot of options with fonts etc.

Run don’t walk over to the digital heaven website to purchase and download.

Tony Salgado

[Tad Newberry]

i also just did a makeshift version of my own using FCP’s Timecode Reader. i cropped the video down so it only showed the minutes and seconds, and then i can move that around to anywhere on the screen. just need to have a fairly long clip, find where it starts at “0:00”, and let ‘er go! it’s quick, easy, free, and resident in FCP…but i’ll give these other options a try as well.

thanks for helping out a bonehead!

[Joshua Medling]

How do you crop the FCP timer thing? its a filter not a generator… im having the same problems. the TOO MUCH TOO SOON is cool, but the clock jitters left and right with the size of the numbers…. i need 12 seconds AND milliseconds. if not for the jumping it would be perfect. any ideas?

[Andy Mees]

Josh
Just add it to a slug then crop that.
Cheers
Andy

[Luigi Mendoza]

I don’t have the Final Cut Pro System Support folder. I made it myself and made a Plugins folder in it as well. I tried dragging the plugins that I have into that folder, but it didn’t show up in the effects tab of FCP.

What do I do?

LUIGI

[Walter Biscardi]

[Luigi Mendoza] “I don’t have the Final Cut Pro System Support folder. I made it myself and made a Plugins folder in it as well. I tried dragging the plugins that I have into that folder, but it didn’t show up in the effects tab of FCP. “

Then you installed FCP incorrectly. FCP will create these folders automatically and then it will find them. Re-install FCP.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[Bailey Damast]

i’m trying to use the countdown timer plug-in from TMTS. the TMTS site states:
The plugins are supposed to be text files. Don’t worry. It’s just so can read the source code more easily and possibly learn FXScript, who knows. They still work as is, just put them in the plugins folder.

uummmm…what? my plug-in folder does not read text. the plug-in package includes plug-ins that are in the correct format, bust most of them are .txt files.

there are new folders of generators when i’m in final cut that are labeled TMTS, but none of them are the”clock.”

please help, my boss wants this done asap.

thanks,
bailey

[Dave Muehsam]

I downloaded the TMTS countdown clock, and I see it in my plug-ins folder, but it’s not showing up in my pull-down filters menu like many of TMTS’s other plug-ins are. How does one access it?