This tutorial was brought to you by Squarespace. Hello video editors! Thanks for watching Storysium. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a simple countdown timer inside Adobe Premiere. And later on in the video I will also show you how to create this more advanced version. This tutorial is mainly based on the Essential Graphics Panel. Which is available in later versions of CC 2018 and newer. Okay, let's now move over to Premiere and start some editing. Inside premiere I've already got a clip on the timeline that we're going to use for this demo. This is just a random clip because you can put the timer on anything that you prefer. Okay, the first thing that we need to do is to create a transparent video. You can do this inside the Project Panel. Click the "New" icon and select "Transparent Video". In the window that pops up you can leave all the settings to the default. And that is because we need to use the same number of frames as our sequence... ...to make the countdown timer work properly. In this case, 25 frames per second. We can now put the transparent video that we created on top of the video clip on the timeline. And you can extend this transparent video as long as you want the countdown timer to be. So, in this case, I'll go for around 10 seconds. Next, we're going to apply an effect to the transparent video. Inside the Effects Panel, search for the "Timecode" effect. You'll find this one under "Video Effects", "Video". I'll drag this one over to the timeline and apply it to the transparent video. As you can see here, in the Program Monitor... ...the timecode effect is displayed on top of the video. Next we're going to do some adjustments inside the Effects Control Panel. First we're going to remove this field symbol. We can simply do this by unchecking this checkbox here. And next we're going to set "Opacity" to zero. This will remove the box around the numbers. And we'll also change the size of the text. We can do this by increasing the percentage here. Okay, let's have a look at the numbers. The first part represents hours. Next we've got minutes. Seconds. And frames. For this countdown timer, we only want the minutes and the seconds. To hide the other parts, we're going to apply another effect. Inside the Effects Panel, search for the "Crop" effect. You can find this one under "Video Effects", "Transform". We'll also apply this effect to the transparent video. Then, inside the Effects Control Panel... Click on the Crop effect and these blue lines will appear here in the Program Monitor. You can use this to crop the transparent video. As you can see, now we've only got the minutes and seconds left. If you want you can also reposition the timer. You can do this inside the Effects Control Panel... by changing the "Position" values in the "Motion" section. Okay, if I give this a playback you can see that the timer is counting up. Instead of counting down. To make the countdown we would need to reverse the clip. Normally, we can do this by right clicking and select "Speed and Duration". And then enable the checkbox for Reverse Speed. But this time, it's grayed out. But, there is a way to fix this! Let's close this one for now, and then right click on the transparent video, and select "Nest". We can simply accept the default name and click OK. And now if we go to "Speed and Duration" again, we can enable "Reverse Speed". And, as you can see, now the timer counts down! Sadly, it's not possible to change the font of the timer. However, it is possible to change the color. There are a couple of ways to do this, one of them is by applying the "Change to Color" effect. You can find this one under "Video Effects", "Color Correction". Drag it over to the timeline to apply it to the transparent video and then head over to the Effects Control Panel to change some settings. The "From" color is already white and we can select anything for the "To" color. And we need to set the "Change" option to "Hue, Lightness & Saturation". And that's how you can change the color of the timer. Another option would be to use the "Tint" effect. You can find this one under "Video Effects", "Color Correction" as well. I will also apply this one to the transparent video... and inside the Effects Control Panel, disable the Change to Color effect. And then change "Map White To" another color. And if I pick the right one I could change this one to red as well. So these effects have the same result, but I wanted to show you both. In the next steps of this tutorial, we're going to create this animated countdown timer. After I tell you about the sponsor of this video, Squarespace. 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If you have the Ellipse Tool enabled, you can click anywhere in the Program Monitor... ...and then draw the circle. And, if you hold the shift key, you will get a perfectly proportional circle. And, once you're done, you need to head over to the Essential Graphics Panel. First, let's center the circle by clicking on these buttons here. And then I will disable the "Fill" and enable the "Stroke". If you want, you can also change the thickness here. I'll put it somewhere like this. Then, I will duplicate this shape layer, by right clicking on the layer... ...and select duplicate. Let's rename the duplicate layer, so we know which one it is. Okay, so now I've got the duplicate layer selected. Now we will change the color of the Stroke. Let's just use white for this one. Now, all we have to do is to scale it down. Somewhere around 90% will do. Now we can move over to the timeline. And then extend the duration of the Essential Graphics layer, so it will match the background. And after that, it's time to head over to the Effects Panel... ...where we're going to search for the effect named "Radial Wipe". You'll find this one under "Video Effects", "Transition". Let's apply this one to the graphics layer... ...and head over to the Effects Control Panel. In there we're going to enable keyframes for "Transition Completion"... ...by clicking on this stopwatch icon here. Then put the keyframe that we created on the beginning of the clip. And create another one with the completion value of 100%, and put it at the end of the clip. If I now scrub through the timeline you can see what we've created so far. We can make the animation go a bit more smoother by right clicking on the keyframe... ...and select "Ease In" for the last one and "Ease Out" for the first one. And this is how it looks so far. And now all we've got left is to add a simple countdown timer. With the right duration, of course. Just like we did in the beginning of this video. And that altogether will look like this. And that's it for this Premiere Pro tutorial. I hope you enjoyed it. And if you did, then please like the video. If you want to know how you can export your countdown timer as a transparent video to be used in other projects, then watch this tutorial. Anyway, that's it for this one! As always, thanks for watching! And, I hope you have a wonderful day.
