Creating and Customising a Timer in Davinci Resolve 18

[@MrAlexTech]

Okay so a few people want Milliseconds rather than Frames so.... I'll make a custom preset soon! I'm away for a few days but i'll get it done when I'm home and release it (free) on Ko-fi! Stay tuned!

[@prso5587]

so x)

[@mastrukko]

I was about to ask haha

[@thehomme]

Did this get done? If we could get 10th, 100th and 1000th of a sec it'd be perfect

[@CantharusENG]

Thank You Alex, Your video are really easy and interesting and more important they works.

[@wimdg4230]

DUDE !!! Just today I was searching for EXACTLY this....!!!!??? You're the GOAT man......!!!!!

[@aaphotofilm]

We love you Alex. Wow where would I be with DR without you. I been looking for timer for ages. It's about time. See what I did there 😂

[@gripsPROD]

Out of all tutorial videos yours is straight to the point and shows many solutions A profesional work here!

[@truewiking]

you are delivering again, right on "time". Thanks Alex

[@bangdoel7112]

Fast, detail and easy to follow, thankyou sir!

[@CompletelySpacedOut]

Thank you for being so straight forward!

[@BajkarzMLP]

This video helped me a lot. It has everything I've been looking for about timers. Thank you! :D

[@VermillionR3D]

Exactly what I needed for a project where I needed a clock like you would see on the news in the corner. Had to crank the Start Offset pretty hard but it's doing the trick. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@Adventureman_Dan]

Got straight into it without any BS. I thank you for your service. :)

[@hummingbird6179]

Great Video, helped a lot and shows better the possibilities regarding starting time etc than the quick and dirty version shown in other videos. Keep it up👍👍

[@Nob1ej0n]

Thank you for the countdown. As soon as you started I was wondering how to do that. Quick and easy!

[@daftclubs]

Bouncing around fonts - solved! You = LEGEND!!!

[@drohnenflug9873]

Thank you for all the useful tutorials, Alex!

[@fullframepro]

Oh wow. Actually have a project coming up that this would be PERFECT for. Thanks so much!!

[@rougebonymedia]

Thorough, funny, two thumbs up...thanks Alex!!

[@WiscoWorkshop]

Another great and quick davinci tip, thank you for sharing!

[@jylobo1112]

Thank you for the Awesome Tutorials Alex

[@astro9557]

not for this video but in general alex you are a f amazing underated f youtuber, like holy shit i open the video i get exaclty what im here for nothing less nothing more, you cover everthing needed fast simple clear neat holy shit, honestly thank u so much i only discovered this channel recenetrly and i wish i had money to donate you well deserve more than just likes and views

[@RoadReality]

Oh man, I've been doing it the hard way all this time! [changing the write on settings instead of the Modifiers tab]. Thanks, Alex! And that reverso trick, brilliant! :D

[@教會別鬧了]

Excellent tutorial, thanks!

[@thesupportcrew1]

This was really helpful. Thank you!

[@aliciafernandez3008]

Good to know, amazing and useful. Thanks Alex for sharing.

[@ARNABOSS]

this is absolutely useful, i used to dump a chroma based layer for counters, now i can create better timers, thanks!

[@Erikito00]

Alex always good tips, thanks! From your fã from Brazil, see ya!

[@limitlesswave]

Are you a teacher away from video editing as your teaching flow is so well paced. You voice also compliments your "go lucky" style and from a Brummie as well, Amazing!

[@boatingpropless]

Thanks Alex. Needed this for a video I was editing right now! Great timing!

[@oxygen454]

Very well done as usual Alex and something I have been wanting to be able to do. Thanks!

[@ffpmatthias777]

3:20 when I click on modifiers there is nothing there, why is this?

[@LoveDarts]

Your videos are so good! Keep up the great work! Big fan!

[@steveh4895]

Thanks Alex. VERY easy to understand. Well done 🙂

[@EdwardKilner]

Excellent. Thank you. Also, very useful and a nice exploration of possible variations.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thanks Alex. Brilliant video as always! Very useful! 👍🏻

[@BethYogaStyle]

YOU ARE THE GREATEST !!!!!!! Perfect and simple, just perfect.

[@dallasamckinney]

Thank you, the whole video I'm asking "what about count down" haha. Thanks for your videos, they are very helpful.

[@BrianBernardEngineering]

how about 10ths and 100s of a second instead of frames after the decimal? Hard to imagine any scenario where the viewer cares to count frames, and they'd pretty much always expect the decimal to be an actual decimal

[@BrunoPereira-je4kd]

i'd like to know if you discovered how to do this, I also want 10ths and 100s

[@TheGigaChezit]

Is there a way to replace the frames counter with something like milliseconds?

[@startsomewhere1]

Thank you coming from using Capcut so this is so helpful especially the countdown which is what I use.

[@depavis9747]

Thank you I needed this, youre the best

[@ThiagoPrego]

Thank you so very much. May the Lord bless you always.

[@DarrenHuckey]

Excellent tutorial as always! Great job, Alex!

[@lawtownonline]

Thank you Alex.

[@CodeFitYouTube]

This is great! Thanks for posting this

[@GOT33]

Thanks Alot Mr. Alex 🌹

[@clopes50]

Wonderful explanation!

[@SIR1mg]

needed that 1! thank you

[@MFoster392]

U DA MAN MrAlexTech

[@MB1968DO]

Great video and very helpful. 👍 I'm still looking for a way to display the real timecode, let's say my footage is 20 minutes long and I use a part of the clip from 10:30 to 11:30, I want to display this time without typing it manually. Can this be done? I think I just didn't find it...

[@RonniesRambles]

been struggling with this for hours. timecode insists on restarting at 0. change TC source in project settings but no luck. I want to use segments from a 6 hour video and use the start time of each segment and count from there; many segments

[@CZZ12]

i loking for this video like a 1 hour thank you so much you are good

[@MasterIvo]

could you: how to import external subtitles (.srt) and what the time codes should look to be imported correctly?

[@jamesatkinsfishing]

brilliant stuff again Alix Thank you

[@Barrick_Creative_Media]

Great video Alex. I’ve used a simple timer once before, but the additional tips will be very useful indeed. I’m going to use it to remaster one of my GoPro videos where my dad was doing laps of a race circuit on his motorbike by adding the lap times to the screen 👍🏼😁

[@rosecoloredglasses-logan]

😇 The timer feature is cool!

[@ederjonatanpulidogonzalez470]

very helpful video! 😀

[@marc3793]

Expressions are so good. I think you should do some more vids on those. If you can find a way to not bore or confuse people! 😐

[@darrensurrey]

Thanks. As mentioned, what about milliseconds instead of frames?

[@Dexter101x]

Good video Alex

[@jasonvaughn1658]

THAT is so Cool😃 Thnx Allot!!!👊

[@GaryCunninghamyouareenough]

Really cool - cheers, Alex 🙏🏻🤟

[@HeintjeMTB]

Great video, only I have two questions. First, can you change the frames to decimals? I feel this should be possible with expressions. I haven't figured out how though. And second. Take for example the mountain bike run you used, but you don't want to show the full two minutes. you just want the start, a section in the middle and the finish. But the timer to still be accurate. I feel this can be done with cutting a compound clip, I just haven't tried it yet.

[@MrAlexTech]

Bingo! just cut the compound clip and that'll do it :) Also yeaah, I'll work on a plugin that'll do ms rather than frames (plus I'll add some extra goodness to it!)

[@Shun_Pon09]

your video is excellent!

[@GuyFarruski]

Hi, when I'm in fusion and select the modifier, I don't get the option to remove hrs,mins, etc.

[@Xfrtrex]

same

[@OzzO_Official]

if you only see "time code on template" when pressing the modifiers, just double-click it and it will show the controls settings

[@josediazh3890]

Muchas gracias.

[@GeorgeKrahnPG]

Forgive me if you have already answered this somewhere but - what if I want to have a 3 minute countdown that does NOT show a zero before the 3? In other words "3:00" not "03:00". I have selected only minutes and seconds in Fusion but don't see a clear way to eliminate that leading zero.

[@NGUNOW]

Thank you!

[@xfirealarm]

Hey Alex Thanks for all your great tutorials. Instead of time code, you cannot change the time code to show distance. I am wondering if it can be changed so that you can see how many meters you have driven? I have some drone footage and would like to be able to show how far I have flown.

[@davide.s.t]

Thank you very much 🙏

[@Hrac03]

thanks you for all

[@Nrde]

How to make the frames to go from 0 to 99 as 100th/s or 10th etc. frames don't have use anywhere else but video editing, timing a bike run doesn't make sense if the least significant value is frames.

[@eransherman9602]

This is nice of you want to show how long something is taking! Like a challenge

[@cristo2241]

thank you so much. I was wondering how to make a video of my dog waiting for a treat, speeding it up, to keep people from dying of boredom!!! ❤

[@mikorf73]

Thank you for all the useful tutorials. Can you tell me how to make count only minutes and seconds but like football . Lets say 1 hour and half to show it like 90 minutes. How can i do that?

[@MrAlexTech]

If you simply turn off the Hours (as shown in the vid) and then the counter will continually count in minutes. So then make it 90 minutes long and it'll show 90 mins, rather then 1:30 :)

[@mikorf73]

@@MrAlexTech Thank you

[@goshm]

Alex, many thanks for this but PLEASE do make a video about the Transparent GIF exports with Alpha Channel, so it would have clear / empty background for it to be used with another projects and platforms... many thanks again!

[@MrAlexTech]

GIFs? Or Videos with Alpha (like as an Mp4 etc)? :)

[@goshm]

@@MrAlexTechthat will be as GIF files, I don’t know if I’m wording it right but yes, videos to be exported as GIF files but to have Aloha channel for clear / transparent background. Many - MANY thanks in advance!

[@zorrothebug]

@@MrAlexTech In 18.5 DR now can export to GIF

[@JohnFresco-o1r]

great vid! What if i wanted to start the countdown timer from a certain number - such as 24 hours. How would i do this? thanks

[@rucifail]

3rd time watching this is 3 months, 3 thumbs up 👍👍👍

[@michaelsopunov]

Hey Alex! Requesting generic counters with automatic adjusting by changing clip-length - maked from Fusion-composition 😊🤘🤘

[@user-hp4wx8rl4s]

Thank you

[@damieneditss]

You mountain bike??? Cool! Do you post any mtb videos anywhere?

[@Daniel1987H]

Is there a way to display the chapter names on screen? Like a baked in subtitle?

[@cornerstonedigitalmedia]

will this work for a time skip? like in time travel films?

[@Tex-9090]

Off Topic: Is it possible to use a GPX file to animate a moving point along a path?

[@KeirBriscoe]

Great tutorial. However, I sped up my timeline, and the timer no longer increments smoothly. It also keeps displaying the counter, after the playhead moves past the end of the compound clip. I'm running this on a M3 Macbook pro with 128gb ram so I dont think resources are the problem. Apparently Resolve is not able to deal with a speed increase of 3000.

[@orangespill]

Hi Alex, How do I do this with showing 10th's of a second (and not frames).... Need to show a car's 0 to 60 time...... Thanks for your concise video btw, it always helps. I copied more of your videos into my DR Howto YT Playlist than any other creator....

[@ilsavv]

How to make an analog timer, the one with a clock face?

[@JeffBourke]

how can i offset the start time so it can refelect the time of day?

[@JerryOhh]

How to make a custom freeze and defreeze timer?

[@ChaosMarine9118]

Is it possible to export alpha channel videos with transparent backgrounds like After Effects can? Would be great if Davinci could do that so then I could export a timer and then overlay it to live video such as in a broadcast scenario.

[@zorrothebug]

Hi, yes it is. MrAlewxTech didn't do a tutorial on this subject yet, but e.g. Casey Faris did. Search for "Casey Faris How To Export Transparency In Resolve"

[@ChaosMarine9118]

THANK YOU!!

[@joanna6570]

Can’t seem to find anyone explaining how to put a beeping countdown noise on the timer :(

[@OzoneVibe]

What I've always been wanting to create is for long duration time-lapses, where I can enter the start date/time and the end date/time and it creates a date/time throughout the time-lapse. Any ideas?

[@michaelbobarev]

uff, easy as ABC -)))

[@muscle__rr]

Yooo, didn't know that !!!

[@user-fo9ce3hr5h]

hi, for a person who want to start learn video edit now, you offer premiere pro or davinci? which one has more project or more options for doing projects? especially freelancing projects. what is your choice for me? do you offer learn premiere pro + afe or davincii + afe or only davincii enough. thanks.

[@turanya]

Totally unrelated question, but I’m trying to create an efficient workflow where I’m editing footage (11 long-form interviews) in a language I don’t speak. I transcribed and translated everything in English on a separate platform and imported each interview with the subtitles into individual timelines. I’m currently creating in/out points in timelines to find the right dialogue, going back to the source clip viewer, then inserting on my master timeline so that I preserve the subtitles. I feel like there must be a more efficient way to do this, but I haven’t figured it out. Any chance you know anything about this? Thanks!!

[@CirTap]

right what I needed to create some fake CCTV footage! thank you!

[@jurisveratti4494]

Useful video, but I don't know why I don't have NiseSegaSonic font in my Davinci Resolve.

[@hnoboa]

The reverse timer does not work. Following the directions, both the video and the timer runs backwards, which is weird. What I need do have is a backwards running timer inside my video :(

[@Studio3OtakuStore]

How can i reverse the magic timer?

[@jonathanblanckaert]

Whenever i change the font, it starts shaking

[@michaelbobarev]

And if i want a timer ( countdown ) ? -)

[@Grailfox_Racing_Trio]

Why do milisec only go up to 24 everytime before it goes up a second ?? how can i change it ?

[@RonniesRambles]

you probably know by now but the last one is frames, your video is at 24fps

[@Grailfox_Racing_Trio]

@@RonniesRambles any idea how i can fix that?

[@RonniesRambles]

​@@Grailfox_Racing_Trio I guess I quite naively replief to this with a link to some other channel but I see Alex mentions that he has done one with milliseconds. Might be worth searching his videos Library