Making a reverse TC generator.

[Anders Haavie]

This guy is traveling around the world making big international productions. (also for big US channels)

When editing music show the live editing is very precise.. I don’t know exactly how his workflow is concerning the cameraguys, but this guy knows what he is doing. This is just for preparation of the editing, the actual productions is as described by another guy on the Premiere Forum.

(Typically U.K. multicam music directors block out to a music script/score & have an experienced music script-super/AD count the bars & shots. Search YouTube for Hamish Hamilton and you’ll get an idea.)

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[Anders Haavie]

Well.. he has been working with FCP since 5.0 days and has just recently made the switch from FCP 7 to Premiere. It was the least painfull, and FCP X was never an option since nobody is using it in broadcast work.

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[Walter Soyka]

You can do this in Ae with an expression.

Import your Premiere edit into Ae, then add a Text layer as the top layer, above everything else in the edit. Twirl the text layer open, then twirl the Text layer group open, then Alt+click the Source Text stopwatch and paste this code:

layerName = "";
layerCountdown = "";
for (var i = index+1; i <= thisComp.numLayers; i++) {
if (thisComp.layer(i).active) {
layerName = thisComp.layer(i).name;
layerCountdown = timeToTimecode(thisComp.layer(i).outPoint - time, timecodeBase = 1/thisComp.frameDuration, isDuration = true);
}
}
layerName + "\n" + layerCountdown;

This will display the name and countdown for the active layer at the top of the stack (below the text layer).

Walter Soyka
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