Timer Days, Hours, Minutes, and Seconds

[Kevin Camp]

This might work for you.

Create 4 text layers and name them ‘Days’, ‘Hours’, ‘Minutes’, ‘Seconds’. Then add a slider expression control to the Days text layer and set key frames to have the slider count down from 10 to 0 (or however you want it).

On the Days text layer, add this expression to the Source Text:

days = Math.floor( effect("Slider Control")("Slider") ) ;
n = days.toString() ;
if ( n.length == 1 ) { n = '0' + n ; }
n

On the Hours text layer add this expression:

days = thisComp.layer("Days").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") ;
hrs = Math.floor( ( days % 1 ) * 24 )
n = hrs.toString() ;
if ( n.length == 1 ) { n = '0' + n ; }
n

Minutes, add this expression:

days = thisComp.layer("Days").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") ;
mins = Math.floor( ( ( ( days % 1 ) * 24 ) % 1 ) * 60 ) ;
n = mins.toString() ;
if ( n.length == 1 ) { n = '0' + n ; }
n

And Seconds, add this expression:

days = thisComp.layer("Days").effect("Slider Control")("Slider") ;
secs = Math.floor( ( ( ( ( ( days % 1 ) * 24 ) % 1 ) * 60 ) % 1 ) * 60 )
n = secs.toString() ;
if ( n.length == 1 ) { n = '0' + n ; }
n

The text in the layers should now count down.

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Once you find this, you won’t be able to unseen it 🙂 Just make sure to set expressions language to Javascript (not a legacy one)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/DateTimeFormat/DateTimeFormat