Timecode fx – changing font

[Terry Coolidge]

I don’t believe you can change the font of the “Timecode” effect, but you could check out Dan Ebberts’ page for creating a “universal up/down clock.”

https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/up-down-clock.html

This is what I would pursue if I were you.

[Todd Kopriva]

Terry’s right. The Timecode effect is an older, less versatile way of animating timecode numbers than using the text animation and expression features of After Effects. Even After Effects Help tries to steer people away from using the Timecode effect and the Numbers effect.

Here’s a link to a forum post where Dan Ebberts and Rick Gerard discuss an expression for animating a string of numbers counting; you’d just have to replace the commas with colons or semicolons to make something like this work for you:

https://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc33f4d/0

[Rory Hinds]

thank you expression are indeed the way forward.

Regards
Rory

[Rory Hinds]

thank you expression are indeed the way forward.

Regards
Rory

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