How would I add Milliseconds to this expression?

[Jackson Redshaw]

Hi Dave,

The frame rate is 25. At the moment, only the minute/s and second/s are displayed on the screen

Thanks

Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/MITLRproductions

[Jackson Redshaw]

I think you misunderstood the question, entirely my fault though.

The expression is generating a countdown clock on the screen. But only the minute/s and seconds are displayed.

Thnaks

Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/MITLRproductions

[Walter Soyka]

rate = -1;
clockStart = 388;

function padZero(n){
if (n < 10) return "0" + n else return "" + n
}

clockTime = Math.max(clockStart + rate*(time - inPoint),0);

t = Math.floor(clockTime);
min = Math.floor((t%3600)/60);
sec = Math.floor(t%60);
milliseconds = clockTime.toFixed(3).split(".")[1];

min + ":" + padZero(sec) + "." + milliseconds;

The magic happens here:
milliseconds = clockTime.toFixed(3).split(".")[1];

Here’s a translation. toFixed() is a method that converts a number to a string with a fixed number of decimal places (in this use above, 3). It will pad with zeroes as necessary to maintain this fixed number.

split() is a method which splits a string into an array of substrings when given a separator. In this case, the separator is a period. For the string “0.123.456”, split(“.”) yields this array of strings: [“0″,”123″,”456”]. We use array indices to access a specific substring.

In plain English, the above line says convert the clock time to a string including 3 decimal places, then take only the digits after the decimal point and call them “milliseconds.”

Walter Soyka
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[Jackson Redshaw]

Thanks so much Walter. Worked Perfectly!

Jackson
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