Digital Real Time clock

[Steve Roberts]

I’m not sure what you want. After Effects makes video clips that have no relationship to the current time. Those clips cannot access any signal from a clock and update it in real time.

I think you need something like a Flash or Javascript applet on a computer hooked up to the Internet, no?

[Jerzy Drozda jr]

In fact you’re right Steve. Even if it would be possible to do it would make no sense, unless someone wants to know when the movie was rendered 😉

But because I am AECracker and ExpressionJunkie I’ve actually found a way of getting the CURRENT TIME on a local computer in after effects.

I’ll do some more experiments on it and make a sensible response to this post. Maybe even a tutorial 😉

Cheers
Maltaannon

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[Mike Clasby]

Definately a Flash thing. Here’s how:

https://www.dreamincode.net/code/snippet137.htm

Then publish a swf and you should be good to go.

[Anandabrata Ghosh]

Hi,

To start with my apologies for my post wasn’t specific enough.

Let me try and consolidate.

1) First I need a digital clock on my video which will display the real time/machine time.

I have been able to achieve that, here’s how
a) Use the Text –> Numbers effect.
b) Choose Format -> Type as Time
c) Check the Current Time/Date box
d) Decide the position

And the clock appears on the video and ticks at real time.
Shortcomings – I would have like more options with the font and styles of the text.

2) Second I need two such clocks on the same frame(all frames of the video actually).
The first one will display the machine/current time. Point (1) achieves that.
The second clock will display time from a different time zone.Now that is what I need help with. In this effect I have only the Cuurent Time/date option. Is there some way I can choose time for particualr time zone.

Hence when I view the video I will be able to see two times, relative to each other. For example US and France.

Hope that clarifies my requirement.

Regards,
Anand

[Sam Moulton]

check out the global options in the Expression language menu. There are a bunch of time to timecode prewritten expressions that you can simply apply to a text layer. You’ll have to use a monospaced font to keep from having the numbers jump around though.