Countdown Timer Movie Studio 13 Pl.

Maka wrote on 6/15/2016, 5:33 PM

Hello everyone,

so i was trying to get some kind of numbers counting down in my video as i found out i only have a ordinary timecode to use.

I need to display something like " 30:12:45:12 " and i need to count it down. White numbers on a black screen.

Does anyone have an idea? I already googled it and searched it on yt but i only get this old style countdown thing.

Any help would be aprecciated.

Thanks.

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vkmast wrote on 6/15/2016, 6:17 PM

Try Marco.'s suggestion from here.

"One easy way to do this is using the timecode fx as track fx and then set the timeline ruler onto 0:00:00:00 at the last frame."

(Right-click on the timeline ruler and you see the "Set Time at Cursor" box. Right-click on Time Display to adjust settings.)

Maka wrote on 6/15/2016, 6:50 PM

Yeeh. I read that discussion and i tried it.

But all that happens is the timeline itself gets expanded. For example at the end of my time code i need to have the timecode to begin with 28: - so what movie studio does is displaying it in hours which would be 04:06:40,270.

I tried other displaying options but none of them helped. ...

Markk655 wrote on 6/15/2016, 9:37 PM

There is a NewBlue FX that allows for clocks including countdown timers. It is easy to use, but it isn't free.

vkmast wrote on 6/16/2016, 3:42 AM

See online Help (F1) Index > Time Ruler > "Changing the format of the ruler" for descriptions of what formats can display.
I'm wondering what are the units in your "30:12:45:12" (or 28:xx:xx:xx) that you want to see in your Timecode.

Maka wrote on 6/16/2016, 7:31 AM

It´s not that i want to show an actual "time code", that´s just the name Movie Studio uses for it.

I need to display a down counting number on a black screen, stopping at 28:06:42:12 -> and fade out.

It´s for a project i´m currently working on and is meaned as hommage to "Donnie Darko", the movie.

So i tried to change the formats but it´s nothing that could help me.

musicvid10 wrote on 6/16/2016, 8:55 AM

You could do it frame-by-frame with the text media generator -- 28 seconds is not too terribly long to do that.

Maka wrote on 6/18/2016, 3:28 PM

Yeah i think i´ll give it a try
I can´t see another way of doing it.

Thanks for your help all