Making a Digital clock with a specific time for Sony Vegas 12

[Aaron Star]

Digital Clock font and frames for each change?

There is a plugin for Timecode, and if set on the preview window, you can then change the timecode of the timeline to what ever you want it to display. For a countdown run the rendered clip in reverse. Use a cover mask to clip the numbers you do not want to see.

A still image of what you would like to see and still of what you have so far would be helpful.

[Graham Bernard]

Erm… Which of these are you after?

G

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[Russ Froze]

Hi, I’m not certain about Platinum but in Pro this can be accomplished in one of two ways.

1) Create new Video track. Insert Empty event in new track. Place the timecode generator on the empty event then begin the video clip at the desired time i.e 05:21:34 or 21:01:19, etc.

2) Create a veg with the timecode generator save it as some_file_name.veg import the some_file_name.veg into the project place it on a new layer. Alt click and drag left or right to adjust to the desired time. Be aware that a timecode of 05:21:34 will only be generated if the framerate is above 33 fps.
Russ Froze

[Adam Macdonald]

Thank you that helps. I had already considered this option but was hoping an easier preset might be available. Thanks a lot for posting this.

[Russ Froze]

Hi, it’s not really all that difficult and takes 5 minutes or less to create a veg file to import into a project. That is about the only way i can think of doing it. If you find something better please share. Glad I could offer some moral support.
Russ Froze

[Graham Bernard]

I was serious about the DIGITAL Clock? Is it that you want a look-alike Digital Clock after the ones I posted?

Grazie

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[Bruce Quayle]

I’m certainly interested to see how you would create a digital clock with one of your examples. And how can you get the clock to count down?

Cheers,
Bruce

[Graham Bernard]

Your ordinal post was how to make a Digital Clock. Is that what you asking for?

G

Video Content Creator and Potter
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Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Aleksey Tarasov]

something like this?

Countdown

here’s the project: https://f1.creativecow.net/file/9275/9275_countdown.zip

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[Aaron Star]

I like the keyframing in this example. Did you find this somewhere or was there a way to automate the key frame generation?