Countdown In Style with Clockworks – Custom Effect
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If you need a great video intro and have less then 24 hours to deliver, then you’re in luck! We’re going to be looking at Jorrit’s Clockworks Custom Effect and working through how to make your own intense show opener using it. You can hang up with CTU, everything you need can be found below!
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By Jorrit Schulte
Jorrit is young guy that is interested in VFX & motion Graphics, and loves messing around in After Effects, 3Ds Max and such.
he is also active on aenhancers.com creating awesome presets for free. Follow Jorrit on twitter.
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interesting, really cool.
Thanks!
nice & helpful, please update the sound layer, quality is horrible..
un peu naze…
mouais… bof bof…
LOVE THIS! seriously awesome dude… helps out so much…
i like it
thanks
excelente look
el contador interesante
thanks…
gracias….
LOL @ je engels. Je hoort zo erg dat je Nederlander bent, niet aan te horen ;)
Inderdaad! HAHA maar toch wel oke!
Nice look, but I’d make the digits mono-spaced; it looks like the LED’s are changing position which is a tell-tale sign it’s faked.
Interesting comment. But I don’t quite understand what you mean. Could you please explain a bit more on making the digits mono-spaced and how to fix the LED’s from changing position.
Cheers.
Good tut, thanks for the thanks.
Nice tutorial..thanks.
Was just a little hard to follow your voice.
math.floor(time) Expression will not work? what am i doing wrong?
Math.floor(time)
Capital M ; )
hello guys from tutsplus.com
why no stream videos from youtube? i think it will be faster , i mean at least the previews….
gatverdamme gast, wat is je engels slecht, maar niet veel beter dan mijn engels. goeie preset! ga zo door!!!
interesting for expressions but i would doit like this:
New solid / numbers effect/ Type – Time or date , what you whant, 4 keyframes to animate offset and finish.
If you whant 20s make a 20s composition
In real life time=money
Nice Use of Expressions.
Sorry guys… how can I use Twitch plug in??
It not a custum effect isn’t it??
please help really like it!!
very ‘very’ basic. Maybe this site should rename itself ‘After Effects for Dummies’!
Hola estaba buscando para hacer un marcador de tantos como en los de ballon cesto si alguine puede guiarme se lo agradeceria
YOU CAN TYPE ENYTHING!!!!!!!!!
Nice, but I can’t find the PresetEffects.xml on my MacBook, in fact I can’t find the whole support files folder. Does somebody know where these files are located? thanks
On Mac you need to right-click on the After Effects application icon and choose “Show Package Contents” Then the path is “Contents/Resources/PresetEffects.xml”
Have fun!
Great tutorial! One problem though…. I downloaded the .flv file of your tutorial and I was about 16 minutes into your 21 minute tutorial and it refused to play further. I downloaded it again, although it didn’t solve my problem. I tried watching the video on this page and it will not even load. I have a brand new MacBook Pro and fast internet so i have no idea what the problem is. Help please?
This is a bit too complicated for making a countdown.
1, Just create a solid.
2. Go to Effects>Text>Numbers
3. Choose your font
4. In the effect settings, under type, choose Timecode [30]
5. Then right-click the layer, choose Time>Time-Reverse layer
Then scale and move to your preference within the comp.
1. Create a text layer
2. choose font (with full controll over style)
3. apply the Clockworks CustomEffect.
4. add time and check the countdown check box.
plus there are more options to make your clock look like the way you want.
hey, i win ;-)
BTW, you can get a newer version of this CustomEffect here:
http://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1553