Making Timer End on a Time Is Such a Hassle

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I need to make the timer effect end on a particular time. For example, if I set the duration to 06:52 (units are seconds:frames), that will end on “06.87”. If I set the duration to 06:53, that will end on 06:89. There is no native way to end on 06:88, somehow, and I VERY FREQUENTLY will run into cases like this. The best workaround I’ve found is to make a dynamic text right after the timer ends, and make the dynamic text say “06.88”. HOWEVER, due to dynamic text being dynamic, if I define the contents to be “06.88”, that will actually display “6.88” because it’s trying to be smart.

Surely it’s unwise to add a timer feature, but then make it impossible to end on certain times unless you are on 100fps?

Since I’m here, one more complaint: why are the boundary values for text size and border width so restrictive in the effect? A font size of 400 is too small, and a border width of 3 is barely visible. This has made it impossible for me to match my timer styles with my title clip styles.

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Hi @Matt-er, and welcome to the forum and community.

Thanks for your post. There is indeed an inconsistency in the way Timer handles Start and Duration. I have opened an issue for that, and if you could, please open a bug report for it (instructions are here).

The Timer effect was recently updated with additional font properties, and a new XML file for it is in the works. That will also fix the outline property to be between 0 and 100 (I hope this is big enough for you :wink: ). DM me if you want it earlier …