Countdown timer for After Effects
September 13th, 2009
A bit of an odd one out, but this was requested by one of my students a while back. It’s an effect preset that can be applied on any text layer in After Effects. It will change it into a countdown timer, that ticks off milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days and years dynamically as your composition progresses. You can select which time measurements to display, as well as the start time. Using keyframing you could even make the clock tick faster or slower!
Anyway, I hope this is of use to someone…
Download here
How to use: Unzip and place in the After Effects -> Presets folder. Then start AE, create a text layer, and drag the preset onto it from the Effects and Presets window.