DaVinci Resolve Count Down Timer

[Juan Salvo]

You, you know… make one. 🙂

AE, Motion are both quite handy for this type of stuff.

I’d guess you can also find some premade ones online.

https://JuanSalvo.com
https://theColourSpace.com

[Eric Johnson]

and now that resolve has text, you can make one in resolve…

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[Juan Salvo]

True, and you could make a grilled cheese with an iron… but is that really the best way to go about it?

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[Eric Johnson]

Not really… But, you could…

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[Marc Wielage]

[Wezley Joao Ferreira] “How do we create a count down timer in DaVinci Resolve? I cannot seem to find it and its not in the manual.”
The program can’t create a countdown, but you can download and import lots of different countdowns at many different resolutions from different sources on the web.

There’s a nice free 1080 16×9 countdown from editor Job ter Burg’s website:

https://leaders.terburg.com

Many stock footage companies also have numerous different kinds of countdowns, including electronic, film, beat-up, vintage, SMPTE, digital, etc.

[Wezley Joao ferreira]

Thanks Mark you are the man!! 😀

Wezley Joao Ferreira
3D DIT & Dailies Colorist

[Marc Wielage]

It’s amazing how hard it is to find a very simple “film-style” digital countdown. Most of the people who have built them think it’s cool to subject the images to heavy grain, destabilization, and flicker, none of which is necessary. Just a straight digital countdown in 16×9 is fine.

[Nat Jencks]

You could draw power windows shaped like numbers and animate them to count down 🙂

-Nat