New Countdown Timer in Premiere Pro

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A new & easy way to add a countdown timer in Premiere Pro that’s fully customizable - change the font, size and color.
⏲️ Great for long or short timers, stopwatches & counters
⏲️ Count up or count down
⏲️ Renders incredibly fast
Convert your TSV to SRT here: editingtools.io/subtitles/
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:02 Create a timer subtitle file
00:03:28 Import the timer into Premiere Pro
00:03:53 Format the timer
00:05:06 Export the timer
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@ShotgunSquirrel Жыл бұрын

If anyone was having trouble, like I was, it looks like Premiere Pro now requires frames to be included. So for a 1 second timecode you need: 00:00:01:00 instead of the 00:00:01 shown in this video. Premiere Pro kept reading the .srt file incorrectly until I added the extra zeros.

@amaexpert Жыл бұрын

But how do you make that in Google Sheets? When I try what you say, it's making every frame a step, like 00:01:00:01 etc

@ShotgunSquirrel Жыл бұрын

@@amaexpert So its a little fiddly, first you need to do the column normally as shown in the video. Then add a second column next to it that references the first column with the formula =A1&":00" That should then add the :00 to the end of every cell. From there I just copied the cells and pasted them into the first column using only the values. Hope that makes sense.

@ThePremierePro Жыл бұрын

Good advice!

@vitorsam Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@Borges911 Жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! Could not figure out why I couldn't get this to work

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! If you'd rather skip the part where you make the subtitle file, you can purchase up to an hour of pre-made timer captions here: www.thepremierepro.com/store/timer-captions

@go2watchmusic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Didn't even think to use subtitles, but it is so much easier than all the other videos I found that try to shoehorn the timecode effect into working as a count down. And once the srt files are built, it's a really quick process.

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad to hear it was useful!

@KevinGeeksOut 2 жыл бұрын

The little blue box trick is new to me. Amazing!

@movietrailer4113 2 жыл бұрын

special thanks for the professional resources for editors 👏👍

@johnvargo8050 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks very much. Purchased the timer files to save myself some time. This solution is a lot more elegant than the timecode hack, which doesn't allow you to change fonts.

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Good luck with your videos John.

@Giegaskip Жыл бұрын

Hello ! Thanks for the video, it's really helpful. I'm just having a problem with the file. When I convert it in EditingTools, there is only one of my subtitles that is being converted even though in my google sheet file everything is correct. Do you have a solution for that?

@PamelaBalusheva 2 жыл бұрын

man thank you so much for this!! the amount of time i’ve spent watching tutorials and trying other methods that just never quite worked properly with really long timers, this is perfect and so easy to do. much appreciated!

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

This makes me very happy :)

@Dando15 4 ай бұрын

Hey Downloaded and worked great.... i'd like a 90 minute timer for a project im working on.... but it be really laggy trying to edit them even with the hour timer

@chrishainstock330 2 жыл бұрын

possibly one of the most useful videos ever! - thank you so much - I found this also works using a CSV imported into Editingtools - its important to use TEXT in the spreadsheet to get the numbers to appear correctly (i.e. 00:00:00 and not 0:00:00)

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris! You need to drag down 1 cell for every second in you timer, so 10 minutes = 600 cells (+1 for the header). I don't think the extra 0 should be a problem, but if it is, you can easily change the display format in Google Sheets by selecting the entire column, and choosing Format > Number > More Formats > More date and time formats. There you can change 'Elapsed Hours' to 'Elapsed Hours with Leading Zero'.

@chrishainstock330 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro ah thanks that’s perfect - honestly enjoying trying out variations of this - it’s so useful

@MushroomFleet 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro Format > number > more formats = no longer present in sheets.

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

@@MushroomFleet Try Format > Number > Custom Date & Time

@MushroomFleet 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro thanks i got it, you gotta deselect the hours too on column 3, thanks!

@ToddMcLeod-personal 2 жыл бұрын

Any work around for ALSO having regular captions, eg, burning one track of captions to the video and exporting the other captions as a sidecar file?

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Good question! After exporting the video with the timer captions burned-in, enable your other captions track and choose File > Export > Captions to create the sidecar file.

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

(also, you add another captions track by choosing Sequence > Captions > Add New Captions Track)

@ToddMcLeod-personal 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro Thank you so much!

@farahasma4484 2 жыл бұрын

Hello there, thank you for this, but I don't know why I don't have the import captions from file in the text section, any idea how can I fix this pls?

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Farah, if you have your Text panel open, you may need to click the Captions tab (instead of Transcript). Either way, you can also import captions using File > Import.

@farahasma4484 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro thanks I passed with success this phase

@ghesepro 2 жыл бұрын

This looks great! But...I've tried so many different versions and nothing actually shows up in Premiere Pro. I'm trying to import a 1 minute timer subtitle, but I've only gotten two titles to show up at the most. I already tried adding the milliseconds and trying a bunch of different number formats in google sheets. I'm really hoping to get this to work. Any ideas? Thanks!

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Did you want to email me your TSV and SRT file and I'll take a look at it?

@ghesepro 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro That would be amazing! I'll send it over right now. Thank you!

@amcaesar 2 жыл бұрын

This video is always useful -- in fact, last weekend at Andy Webb's wedding, me and Jeremy Workman were kvelling over how great this channel is!

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

THE Jeremy Workman??? Appreciate all the kvelling, offline and on :)

@amcaesar 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro I didn't check his identification, but he said he was Jeremy. It has been a while since I've seen him, though.

@mwailes11 2 жыл бұрын

When I import my file into Premier Pro, it just loads the first time mark -- in my case, 3:00 for a 3 minute timer. But nothing else. Any ideas?

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like there's an issue with your SRT file. Try opening it in any text editor and see if you can spot the problem. Otherwise, email it to me and I'll take a look at it.

@dennisdowding4655 2 жыл бұрын

so when I import my SRT file it creates a subtitle track but doesn't fill it with anything. I looked over the SRT file and all seems normal. any ideas?

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Email me your SRT file and I'll take a look at it.

@Esteem_fa 2 жыл бұрын

Keep going bro🙂❤ miss you so much!

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Esteem - I'll be back soon!

@imnotokay252 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there! I've been getting a problem with uploading my SRT file to my Premiere Pro. As I upload it to captions, I am unable to do so as it tells me that "the file cannot be opened because of a header error". Does anyone know how I can fix this? Thank you so much!

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Did you want to email me your SRT file and I take a look at it?

@imnotokay252 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro Good day! I'm good now. I wasn't sure what went wrong, and I decided to restart my laptop and re-do everything, and eventually it worked. But, I am glad i fixed it somehow! Thank you so much for your video! It saved me tons of time and is incredibly helpful. Keep it up! 💯

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

@@imnotokay252 Thanks, great to hear it's working!

@robmaupome 2 жыл бұрын

Any way I could do this quickly with a clock that has PM/AM?

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Select your Subtitle column in Google Sheets, choose Format > Number > Custom Date and Time, and choose the time format that uses AM/PM.

@juneuno1672 2 жыл бұрын

PLs upload new vid, I dont want you to be demonitized. I love your work.

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks June - I'm editing a feature film at the moment, but hoping to upload more tutorials once it's finished.

@robertosoracco15 2 жыл бұрын

I've attempted to do this, change the formatting, and still no luck. I made sure the sequence was at 30fps as well. The first time I tried it, captions showed from 14:27 and jumped to 14:01 and then 13:27.

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Roberto - email me your captions file and I'll take a look at it.

@robertosoracco15 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro It appears it has to do with the milliseconds format. When I've ran it through the website recommended the milliseconds don't get added. So went back into Google Sheets to add ",000" to the numbers and it worked okay. The 6 digits as shown 00:00:00 apparently need the milliseconds as well.

@RyanSSmith 2 жыл бұрын

@@robertosoracco15 Roberto I've been having the exact same problem. Can you let me know exactly how you are formatting your numbers. Is it 00:00:00,000 ??

@RyanSSmith 2 жыл бұрын

Figured it out! Yes it needs to read 00:00:00.000 and then it populates correctly when imported into Premiere. So glad this works now this is amazingly helpful!!

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

@@RyanSSmith Great, glad to hear it worked!

@BiggBoned 5 ай бұрын

I can't get this website tool to generate the SRT file correctly, it comes out all wonky. I'm just going to use the other method I found the link to this video in.

@shubhamprakash8488 2 жыл бұрын

Please make video on how to make intro like yours.

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Will do, I'll add it to my list.

@shubhamprakash8488 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro thanks man !

@pictureusfamily 2 жыл бұрын

I tried all day with no luck. I just purchased the pre-made timer. Thanks for trying tho.

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Do you mean you were unable to make the timers yourself or you're having issues with the pre-made timers?

@jamanheslop7607 2 жыл бұрын

For me google sheets is automatically changing "00:00:00" to "12:00:00 AM" and 0:00 in the actual cell. It throws off the whole algorithm so that the count down doesn't change one second at a time... Any idea why?

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Not sure why it's forcing you to use that specific time format, but you can change the format by selecting the column and going to Format > Number > Custom Date & Time.

@laughingcow5389 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro Hey I'm having the same issue, I've tried with both sheets and excel. It seems even if I finally get the formatting correct with the custom option, the numbers won't fill down correctly in a sequence... Quite frustrating! How is your google sheets not automatically correcting your numbers into dates, as well as let you fill the numbers down?

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

@@laughingcow5389 Hi Anika, can you email me your Google sheet and I'll take a look at it?

@laughingcow5389 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro Just sent! Thanks so much

@harasson0914 2 жыл бұрын

@@laughingcow5389 @The Premiere Pro was there a solution found? Im having the same issues

@muzician7 Жыл бұрын

The numbers keep slowly moving up and then a new set of number show up from the bottom slowly. How can this be remedied?

@anderss8745 6 ай бұрын

I tried to do this in Premiere Pro CC 2019, but didn't get it to work. I even bought the subtitle-files. :(

@ThePremierePro 6 ай бұрын

I don't think 2019 is supported, since that was Premiere's old subtitle system. Shoot me an email and I'll organize a refund for you.

@kyriakosxnt5429 2 жыл бұрын

Can I change your one hour long timer to 2 hours?

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Yep, the best way to do this would be to duplicate the 1 hour SRT file, open it in any text editor and find/replace "1:" and "0:" with "2:" and "1:". Then import both subtitles into your project. (if you have any issues, shoot me an email)

@movietrailer4113 2 жыл бұрын

❗ Tell us in one of the videos what stand-alone clips are and why they are needed at all. What useful work can be done with them? 🤷‍♂️

@DaCopium Жыл бұрын

it ransates to mili seconds for me

@ThePremierePro Жыл бұрын

It should still work with milliseconds, but you can always change the format in Google Sheets using Format > Number > Custom Date and Time.

@farahasma4484 2 жыл бұрын

it's been two hours trying it and it's not working for me :(

@ThePremierePro 2 жыл бұрын

Let me know at which stage it is not working for you and I will try to help.

@farahasma4484 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePremierePro when I import the art file, it does not appear in adobe premiere ... and I get no error message, plus I cant see the subtitles

@movietrailer4113 2 жыл бұрын

❗And then there will be development ? have you been waiting for 👈

@mr.grotto9498 Жыл бұрын

Header error, and using this system no online editor or notepad can edit it to correct the information. Use a different tutorial if you run into this issue.

@ThePremierePro Жыл бұрын

You may need to add frames to the timecode, e.g. 00:00:01 should be 00:00:01:00.