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What is Time?
Time are Time-Saving presets for designing and animating Timers and Clocks in After Effects. Digital Clock – for Time clock animations, and Timer for Countdown animations.
Abilities:
- Text-Layer based.
- Intuitive and Simple Effect based Interface.
- Fully Editable and Flexible.
- Works with all Fonts (Mono-Spaced Recommended).
- Automatic and Manual animation engines.
- CC-CC 2021 Compatible (Mac and PC).
- Supports all Languages.
“I wish I knew these Time Presets a few years ago, it could save me a lot of hassle”
Marty Mcfly, January 1885
Simple Native Interface
Create, Edit and Animate Clocks and Timers with amazing speed and simplicity.
Interface Features
- Two Powerful yet simple Animation Engines.
- Fully Customize- to create any Clock/Timer format.
- Use Markers to start your animation.
- Change Dividers (:) to any Letter/Symbol you need.
- “Set Time and go” animation.
- AM/PM or 24H with a single Click.
- Count down with auto mili-seconds (ms).
Watch the Digital Clock/Timer Tutorial
Digital Clock Effect Referance
Set an Auto animation Speed, For Example
Speed = 1 (Default)–> Real-time
Speed = 60 –> Minute Every Second
Speed = 3600 –> Hour Every Second
Speed = (-1) –> Animation Reverse etc.
Speed = 0 –> Manual Animation By the parameters Seconds, Minutes or Hours
Speed = 1 (Default)–> Real-time
Speed = 60 –> Minute Every Second
Speed = 3600 –> Hour Every Second
Speed = (-1) –> Animation Reverse etc.
Speed = 0 –> Manual Animation By the parameters Seconds, Minutes or Hours
Animate this Property to drive the Digital Clock Animation, in Hours. Animate this Property to drive the Digital Clock Animation, in minutes. 
This Checkbox Toggles the visibility of the Seconds Fields. 
Animate this Property to drive the Digital Clock Animation, in Seconds. The Seconds are animated Automatically when the Minutes property is animated. Tip: Set the the time in the Minutes Property, and make the animation in the Seconds Property. 
This Checkbox Toggles Between AM/PM and 24Hours formats. 
This property helps aligning the AM/PM letters to the desired location. 
This property helps Setting the AM/PM letters to the desired Scale.
This Property aligns the Dividers vertically. 
This Checkbox Toggles the visibility of “Dead Zeros” on the hour left field.
Turn on this Check-box to see some animation and workflow tips
You can Change The Dividers simply by Double Clicking the layer and typing the characters of your choice.
In this example the Dividers were changed to a dot (.)
Timer Effect Referance
Set an Auto animation Speed, For Example
Speed = 1 (Default)–> Real-time
Speed = 60 –> Minute Every Second
Speed = 3600 –> Hour Every Second
Speed = (-1) –> Animation Reverse etc.
Speed = 0 –> Manual Animation By the parameters Seconds, Minutes or Hours
Speed = 1 (Default)–> Real-time
Speed = 60 –> Minute Every Second
Speed = 3600 –> Hour Every Second
Speed = (-1) –> Animation Reverse etc.
Speed = 0 –> Manual Animation By the parameters Seconds, Minutes or Hours
Animate this Property to drive the Timer Animation, in seconds.
Animate this Property to drive the Timer Animation, in Minutes.
Animate this Property to drive the Timer Animation, in Hours.
This Checkbox Toggles the visibility of the Hours Fields 
This Checkbox Toggles the visibility of the mili-Second Fields.
mili-Second are animated automatically.
This Property aligns the Dividers vertically.
Turn on this Check-box to see some animation and workflow tips
- You can Change The Dividers simply by Double Clicking the layer and typing the characters of your choice. In this example the Dividers were changed to a dot (.)
- You can add a Layer Marker (*) to start a speed based animation from marker location.
What’s in the Package?
- Examples folder – The collect folder of the examples, to help you get started quickly, as seen in the tutorial.
- VDODNA folder– The Time Presets Folder.
- Read Me file– TXT file of How to install The Time Presets, step by step, and how to be a better person.
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Are the music rights included along with the package?
Hi Patrik
The package includes most of the shots seen in the promo but not the music nor the rights to use them.
HI
I just bought a time preset plug-in from your website, however, it seems can not be downloaded. can you help me and fix it ? My email is 315479854@qq.com
Hi! Thanks for your purchase. And Sure, I’ll contact you through the mail.
I just purchased the preset and need a little help
On the minute of the timer how do I remove the 0? For a 5 minute timer I don’t want the 0 in front of the 5. Currently is 05:00 I need it to be 5:00
Thanks
Hi Briyan
The “hide zeros” feature is available only in the digital clock preset for leading hours, but you can still achieve that on the the timer with a simple mask that subtracts the leading zeros.
Afternoon, I want to create a timer for a video and embed this as a animation or something visible for the duration of the video. I.E. my video will be 30sec long but i would want the timer to count up to 53 hours and 45 min whilst the video is running. Will your software give this to me ?
Hi Paul
Sure, It’s pretty simple:
using the Timer preset, set the “Speed” to Zero (which means manual animation), check the “Show Hour” box and uncheck the “Show mili-Second” box.
Now you can set the key frames of the hours and minutes to 0 in the beginning of the video and 5, 45 at the and video.
I recommend watching the full Tutorial to understand all of Time Presets capabilities.
Best Regards
Can you also count up to a specific time?
Of course, if the speed is set to 0 you can set keyframes for your specific time
Where can I get those digital fonts that are in your example video? Im trying to make a “24” spoof video and when I open the template it says that Ray tracing and a list of fonts are missing. The “get from adobe” square is also greyed out.
Hi Sai
The fonts used are generic digital clock fonts available for purchase all over the web, but not from adobe.
Since our project files are designed to work on earlier versions of after effects the Ray trace engine is used. you can change the render engine to Cinema 4D to solve the issue.
Counter has issues on 23.976 composition. I created a simple count up timer and when the comp hits the 24 minute mark, the timer reads 24:01. Make sure you reset the timer by changing speed to 0, and then changing it back to 1,
Hi Peter
You are right, in compositions with non integer FPS, the timer mimics the time expression and shows time as frame based intervals. Your solution is good but that is exactly why you can change the speed to 0 and animate the time manually for more accurate results.