Automatic Dynamic Counters - An Introduction to Expressions in Davinci Resolve 16

[@MrAlexTech]

*UPDATE* I've recently discovered how to pull the project frame rate into the expression 😀 Woo! Here it is: ceil((time)/comp:GetPrefs().Comp.FrameFormat.Rate)

[@toxotis70]

Where can we find all 5he variables available in davinci?

[@lodcorp]

Hi, how can make timer but not 1:35:12 i want only minutes like this: 95:12

[@PierreGabriel69]

Hi Alex, you are a magician who explains things that seem so complicated in a simple way. Thank you and have a pleasant day.

[@TheCreativeModellerHO]

Great video! I love longer video's like this one!👍👌🏼💪 Please make more video's like this!

[@MrAlexTech]

Sure! Will do 🙂👍

[@BillyRybka]

Haha you got the video out before I could 😉 good one mate!

[@MrAlexTech]

Muahahah! 😜😀

[@BillyRybka]

@@MrAlexTech I'll get you next time MrAlexTech 😉😂😂

[@MrAlexTech]

@@BillyRybka *strokes Cat* Not if I get your first Agent Rybka! 😆 I've got some more expressions coming up soon dude. I think you'll find them interesting (hopefully!). They've been frying by brain the past few days 😆

[@BillyRybka]

@@MrAlexTech Pets Racoon - The names Billy, Billy Rybka ┌( ͝° ͜ʖ͡°)=ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ We'll see about that Mr.Tech 🤣🤣 Yeah man! Im looking forward to it! I always love learning something New about this program! Your killin it bro!

[@CBSuper]

Great video! Made the concept of expressions in Fusion very easy to learn and "comp.RenderEnd" is definitely a good one to know.

[@doubledark2]

great work; just need more coffee when watching at 6:30 in the morning :)

[@TheAdkFlyer10]

Excellent! Other videos I’ve seen on this subject just say, “click this, enter this”, etc. without explaining what is happening. You’ve done a great job in making it understandable. Thank you!

[@JacAug]

Hi Alex. What a great tool. Awesome tutorial. Nice and detailed. Didn’t even notice the length of it. Great content 👍🏼 thank you! 👏🏼

[@DKPaddler]

Awesome with these 10 minute Tuesday's and 5 minute Friday's... keep up the good work.

[@marc3793]

Wow, your production quality has improved a lot in 2 years Alex! Good work.

[@MrAlexTech]

Haha tell me about it 😂 thanks Marc!

[@MPA188]

Really love this expression, I would like to see you produce a series of Expression in Fusion.

[@kurtgilbertson]

DUDE! Coming in clutch again for one of my videos (wrecked). Realized I wanted this 2 hours before posting and had it done in 30 mins. Appreciate your ability to teach. The clarity, speed yet slow build up. Brilliant. Thanks again!

[@octanenerdtelugu6450]

thank you very much Alex i was able to make a custom circular progress bar with these expressions

[@rainerstehr]

Where do I give 5 thumbs up?! You explain very good relative complicated stuff. Congrats and thank you very much.

[@averagewoman6962]

Brings back memories of the old, old days, programming in Basic.

[@NikiProshin]

Useful tutorial! It's literally the first thing in Davinci that I wouldn't figure out by myself. I simple didn't know there's an option using expressions

[@AkinAkin]

Your videos are always helpful.

[@careywinterflood4425]

amazing teaching skills...calm, collected, and very informative...excellant...!!

[@BobNoodlefoot]

Alex you are the MVP of the day. Every tutorial you make helps me out so much. Down to earth personality, stellar content and an entertaining presentation. Thank you for putting in the effort to make our nooby videos that tiny bit better. Keep up the good work!

[@madebymarcin]

As always another good video from Alex. You have a gift to explain everything in a very simple way!

[@GeorgeHolden]

Legend, once again the best Davinci guide on YT!

[@AmazingKitchen]

Thanks Alex, you are amazing. Your tutorials are easy to understand and very helpful. Thanks for sharing👍

[@bobs...861]

Always providing good info ... thanks

[@laveur]

Even though I am still really new to Davinici I love the fact that there are stuff that are actually programable. Being a programmer it make my life easier. Also In programming parlance: Parentheses are "(" or ")", Brackets are "[" or "]" and Curley Brackets: "{" or "}"

[@lukasbabic7001]

Thanks a lot, a very useful video 🙏

[@danm7596]

thumbs up just for that countdown in the beginning - good stuff

[@darrigan1]

Great tutorial. Thank you. More please.

[@michaelauerbach7016]

Thank you!!! That was one of the BEST tutorials I have ever seen!!! Just wonderful how clear and concise your explanations are. I am definitely subscribed!!

[@scdronemedia]

Another excellent tutorial. You really do have an excellent way of explaining things that make it very simple to understand.

[@nandorboda8049]

Hmm... Excel...

[@SpirosAbatis]

Cheers! Great tutorial as ever! Wasn't aware I had that right click function at all! I'm using it for a fake 'high score' counter with time * 10 and a retro 8-bit font!

[@Dandelion-32]

I really like your way of teaching, Alex. The video is clearly thought out, and the well dosed amount of repetitive steps just strengthens the learning. Really good. Thank you 🙂

[@thesud7]

instruction couln't have been given any clearer. thank you sir.

[@user-rr8dn5yl7d]

Brilliant! Just the kind of advanced stuff I'm looking for. I bet you're just the guy who can help me. I have a 20 minute video that I've shrunk to about a minute using Retime Controls. I'd like to add a timer that represents the original time rather then the new condensed time. Ideally the timer would speed up and slow down as the video speeds up and slows down. I hope I explained that right. Any help would be hugely appreciated. Thx!

[@kottemikaelsson8575]

Bumping this. Looking for the same thing...

[@AironExTv]

Great! That filled in some blanks for me. Good mix of speed and repetition. Sticks.

[@markbraden6743]

Brilliant. More of this type of tutorial. Thanks Alex. 👏👏👍

[@UKDroneAdventures]

Brilliant, as always. Davinci Resolve is like a programming language. Love it.

[@1MinuteFlipDoc]

like excel! hahah

[@CloudAdvocate]

Thanks Alex, could you please create a video on text effects (custom). Thanks in advance.

[@o0Dr0o]

man you are really talented , thanks for sharing this , but I have a feeling there is an easier way , thank you

[@mutleycruz1835]

These expression tutorials / examples are awesome really clever stuff

[@MforLife]

Hi Alex! Another very helpful video from you! 👍 Is it still possible to display the timer as a bar? Greetings Sascha

Hi Alex nice to see you and thank you for amazing tutorials like always

[@glzanardi]

Great video! Best Tutorial for DaVinci Resolve!

[@grahame8032]

Great work Alex

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Thanks for this very useful tutorial. There's a cup of coffee waiting for you. Cheers.

[@MrAlexTech]

Thank you Todd :)

[@kobboy007]

Awesome! Again another useful video. You can't stop, right? That's why good for us Davinci users. Thanks!!!

[@SwingFish]

EXTREMLY Helpful! thanks

[@uelemal]

thank you, very useful and well explained

[@Geleedpotigencom]

I'm baffled why you dont have 10x the amount of subscribers. Awesomely edited, well spoken, highly informative videos time and time again. Keep it up!

[@batesterman]

Hi Alex, Thank you, I'll be using this to count frames for creating animation sync'd to music. Add Title + dynamic counter across the whole song, then cut to the beat, or significant points of music, result gives how many frames are need to animate for each cut. Add cuts, slide cut points as needed, dynamic results. Use comp.RenderEnd-Comp.RenderStart .. " frames" This is exactly what I needed in 2024.

[@anthminimal]

ah mazing bro. exactly what i was looking for and more! brilliant, thank you!

[@ralvis20]

MAN! Thank you for this! I tried making a countdown with expressions a few months ago and couldn't get it to work properly and ran out of time for the project I was on. Thanks for thiS!

[@jimxtx]

Awesome tutorial .....thanks a lot!!

[@joemehere1151]

Love all your work!

[@ray.watts.44]

Not got into expressions yet so this is very handy, enjoyed the longer format. Knew those computer science classes at Dudley Technical college would come in handy one day!!

[@pattappatph]

This will be very helpful.. Thanks for this 😊

wooooooooow 🤯🤯🤯 AMAZING! Thanks dude!

[@AbrEvig]

Very useful indeed. More expressions please!!!

[@ladislavdunaj4046]

Great tutorial, very useful, finally available, I waited for it for a a long time. Thank you Alex.

[@JeanClaudeMartin]

Very interesting subject. Thank you very much!

[@michaeladamson2041]

Thanks for the video, it helped me get things figured out! Keep it up.

[@RocknRollCEO]

You really are the man!

[@kapooranuj]

Yes pls. More long format videos

[@marekpakua3694]

Thanks. It was very helpful

[@A-V]

Very cool... thanks!

[@bluephoenixtwo]

Loved this video!! Your videos are always useful! Thank you! Take care!

[@kentoakley9409]

Love It, would like to see more of what can be done with this function. As always great content

[@andywright2606]

Another very informative video Alex. I will never remember that stuff but I've captured the video and can check it out again if I need to use it. Thanks You Mate

[@LarryDelPrete]

Great thanks for your videos

[@furkanakbyk9466]

My fav KZbinr always hereeeee

[@MrAlexTech]

Waddup my dude 😀👍

[@furkanakbyk9466]

@@MrAlexTech i learned a lot of things from you sir thank you so much I am gonna share my first video tomorrow insallah so much respect and love from Turkeeeeey 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷

[@MrSentipik]

thi is super coll video THX for time You big man!

[@ntobekososibo2042]

Didn’t realized this program went so deep (phrasing)

[@MrAlexTech]

Ohhh it goes deep (phrasing)! I love Archer! 😆

[@MDN75]

Oh wow awesome! Great video tutorial :) Thanks! :)

[@stealthblade2992]

Very helpful Alex!! 🤝🏼🤝🏼👍🏼

[@OakleefMoto]

Very good one. Thank you. Keep it up.

[@DroneAcharya9]

This was fabulous!!!

[@fredfahrenhayd7299]

I Love your Videos, thanks

[@lucaswashington1494]

Love your content...definitely subscribed to your channel!

[@OriOnTheIguanaHunter]

Love it! Alex, where are you learning this advance features?

[@bahraintahir7434]

Another great tut. TQ.

[@guitaralvez]

I had no idea about this!!

[@GerfriedGuggi]

I'm really gonna build some Power Bins today!

[@MrAlexTech]

You can never have too many Power Bins! 😆

[@Apollochannelhk]

Very useful !

[@livingthedreamsince1974]

perfect explanation..

[@Benjamin-om3ih]

Awesome video Alex!

[@MoreHace]

Hey alex! I've been trying to find a better way to edit the expressions, I mean a bigger box where to input the code (better if adjustable). Do u know to look for this or how to do it? Thanks!

[@Roman.Visuals]

Alex another great tutorial, keep it coming. You should have a little longer vids for more monetization imo. After all you're teaching us valuable things. Could you complement this tutorial with another about loading bar for time/percentage? Something to put at bottom portion of the video to see and read the progress of desired clip.

[@maunader]

I thought I would still need After Effects for motion graphics even though I changed to DaVinci Resolve, but this video made me realize how powerful fusion actually is. I just need to get used to using nodes instead of layers. Thank you!

[@zolwninja8]

this will be good enough, thanks 👍

[@magmadoze3299]

Such good tutorial

[@cosplay-welt]

exactley what I needed! thanks!

[@dereklindo4074]

This is really good, great tutorial!

[@hremiko]

Liked .. Subscribed + "Thanks"(Time/forever)

[@iandenslow7516]

Hi Alex. Really helpful as usual. Can I ask how to create a counter using expressions that simply adds 1 at every key frame. Thanks in advance.

[@benbarwick323]

Legend thank you so much

[@brightlightproduction]

Hey....What should i do if i want to complete 0 to 100 at any particular frame

[@gonegoozling9034]

I so want to use this now! I just need to think of a reason. So cool :). Ian

[@RomanWeber]

great as always, thx Alex - do you know is there a way to get one or to digits, after the comma?!

[@MohamedOsama-hm9vo]

ok, this one is awesome

[@ShaneHarderPhoto]

This is incredibly helpful, like many of your videos. Is there a way to make the counter stop on a number? For example, I'm trying to count up to 90%. I'm using a workaround of copying the text object as a static number, then extending it out in the timeline and pulling back the timeline length of the counting clip but it's not ideal.

[@MartinHealy]

Thanks for sharing these techniques. I don't have a use for them at the moment but it is always good to know. Please keep on producing these great shows - well done. Regards, Martin