Creating Countdown Clock

[Craig Howard]

Use the facility already available in PremPro to make a customised Countdown leader and use motion ( scale / position)to set it where you want in the frame.

You can composite it many ways with the tools available.

I made an ID board with a countdown leader, grey scale & bars that I use for all my broadcast masters.

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Wvproducer]

Sorry, my first post and I should have been more specific. I need to have a timer in the corner of the screen counting down from 5 minutes to zero. The only simple fix I can think of is to videotape a digital clock, and super it over the video, except I haven’t found a clock that will countdown. I was hoping someone knew of a titler program or plugin that could do this…

I’m using Premiere to edit, on Win 2K with Canopus DVstorm2 videocard.

Thanks

[Mike Cohen]

http://www.2writers.com/download.htm

this site has a free program which generates an AVI of whatever time code numbers you want. if it works, just make a movie for the time period you want, then reverse it, resize it, make it part of a graphic or whatever

However, this is even better:

I also found a website which has an AVI available for download from 00-60:00:00:00 – which I use for making TC burns in Premiere – you could use that and do the same thing to it.
http://www.mediacollege.com/downloads

very useful download

[Wvproducer]

Thanks Mike, i’m downloading the timecode file from mediacollege, I think that will work, and it could be really useful for other stuff.

[Craig Howard]

Or you could track down ‘DVdate’ – plugin for PremPro and this will do what you want also very cheaply and efficiently.

Craig
Shooter Film Company
Auckland
New Zealand

(Premiere Pro 1.5 / Matrox TRX100 XTreme Pro)

[Peter Bailey]

I am new to premiere as i am a vegas pro user, where is the countdown clock located in premiere to add to a video?

regards in advance