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Need a "countdown" video clip

Postby imladyl » Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:15 pm

I need a "countdown" video for my church, to "countdown" 5 minutes until the service starts. Does anyone know if one exists on this site already or know how I could create one. I'd like to create it myself but I don't know where to start.
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Postby Steve Grisetti » Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:24 pm

Well, Preminger Archives has some nice drive-in movie clips. "Go on out to the lobby" ads for the concession stand for before the movie.

But I don't think that's what you're looking for, is it?
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Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:05 pm

What did you have in mind for creating your own? You must have some kind of vision of what you would like it to look like, we can help you create it :)

I have the old Drive In 'The Show Starts In 5 Minutes' countdown, but it is in segments (the whole thing is only about 2 minutes long and you need to cut it up) and you still need to add something between the minutes, even if it is just Black Video. I used it on one of my videos and it works just fine but the quality isn't perfect.
I will post the sample later and you can see what it looks like.
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Postby Steve Grisetti » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:22 pm

But, Chuck, won't you end up with a congregation craving fresh popcorn and icy cold Cokes?
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Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:33 pm

Yes you will :shock:

But don't you know that some churches today have coffee and snack shops where you can get a refreshing Latte or Iced Coffee? It may be the perfect time to advertise for the coffee shop or the book store :)
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Postby Clayton » Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:43 pm

Our church uses Media Shout.
http://www.shoutable.com/index.asp?CartId={92FEE040-D91A-EVEREST4DF5-9E46-61C0B0250446}&FSCat=182&url=IND&iFromFeatured=1

At their site they have various countdowns for downloading. I hope this url works, if not try thier site.
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Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:29 pm

The URL works if you copy the whole thing and paste it into the browser.

They have some great countdowns and they are $13 or $6, not bad. If nothing else you can check them out to get some really good ideas, any of those can be done with Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements together.
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Postby imladyl » Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:53 pm

Thanks everyone, for your interest. I went to the mediashout website and they do have a lot of 5 min. countdowns to offer...even for churches. Yes, my church has a coffehouse so maybe that might be a good background :-D For now, I can buy one for much less than what it would take me to make one but, if anyone is willing to tell me how to do it, I'd love to learn how to make my own. I use Premiere Elements 3.0.2. I have Photoshop CS (Not PS Elements).

Thanks in advance for the help
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Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:24 pm

So do you have anything in mind? How about an example you could point us to? We just need some idea to start with and we can help you create it.

To start with you can create the timer (if that is what you are thinking of) in Photoshop CS, you will need a graphic for every time change and you can use whatever style, background or font you like. You may just want the time as a graphic with no background so you can add a video background in Premiere Elements. If you want to go by the second you will need to create the numbers to countdown from 06:00:00 to 00:00:00, I think that is 300 images. Import them all into Premiere Elements with a default duration of 1 second (30 frames NTSC). Add your background, there are some great free ones on our Products page.

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Postby imladyl » Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:06 am

I will probably have scripture verses fading in and out but creating the timer is what I needed to know and you make it sound so easy :-) I will give it a try.

Thank you so much for your help!
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Postby RJ Johnston » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:19 pm

Earlier I posted a visual basic script on this site that can do that.

You design the initial title in Premiere Elements and then export it. Then you drag and drop the exported title onto the VBScript icon on your desktop. The script will then generate a series of titles. You load the titles back into Premiere Elements. Use the Create Slideshow feature to place the titles on the timeline. You would specify 1 second duration for each title.

I just went to my gallary but none of my videos will play. Now what is wrong?
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Postby RJ Johnston » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:50 pm

Here is a link to the Zip file that contains the VBScript:

http://www.muvipix.com/cpg/displayi ... p?pos=-794

Here is the link to my original post to Showcase:

http://muvipix.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php ... t=sequence
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Postby RJ Johnston » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:46 am

Lady L,

It's a piece of cake to create your own countdown timer. Here are the basic steps using my script:

Create a title in Premiere Elements 3 and change "Add Text" to "1234".

Select the "2" and then use the kerning tool to move the "34" over to the right to make room for a colon, but don't type a colon in that text field.

Create a separate text field and type a colon in that. Position it so that it falls between the "2" and the "3" in the other text field. Now the title should look like "12 : 34".

Now select the title in the Available Media bin, and File > Export > Title. Save it to an empty directory, for convenience, as the script will add 501 more titles to the directory.

Open the folder with the exported title using Windows Explorer, and drag the .prtl file to the VBScript icon of my script and drop it. Enter a starting number of 0 and click OK to the first inputbox, and enter 500 for the ending number in the second inputbox and click OK.

The script will then generate 501 titles in that directory with a sequence of TC0000 to TC0500. You won't see a hourglass when a script runs. But it shouldn't take to long for it to finish, about 15 seconds on my machine.

Delete the following files in the folder in these ranges (I left off the .prtl file extensions)

TC0060 to TC0099
TC0160 to TC0199
TC0260 to TC0299
TC0360 to TC0399
TC0460 to TC0499

Go back into Premiere Elements and add those 301 titles to the Available Media Bin. Click on the "Name" column in the Available Media bin so the 301 items are sorted in descending order 50:00 to 00:00. Select all those titles, except the one that you exported, and then click More > Create Slideshow > change "150 frames" to "1 second" and click OK.

Now there will be 301 frames of 1 second each on the timelime going from "05 : 00" to "00 : 00". The frames will be grouped. Drag them up to video track 2 or higher. You can use video track 1 for the background.

Now you can render a preview.

When the script runs, it will be listed in the Windows Task Manager as "wscript.exe". If something doesn't seem to be working right or takes too long, you can kill that process in Task Manager.

When you design the initial title with the "12:34," you can select the individal numbers and format them differently with fonts and color and styles, and use the kerning tool to spread out the characters. My script is looking for a text field with only "1234" in it. How it's formatted doesn't matter and is a separate thing in the title file.

Those 301 .prtl files created by my script and added to the Explorer folder can be deleted from that folder once you have them added to the Available Media bin.
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Postby imladyl » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:39 am

Wow. I'll give this a try this weekend. Thank you so much!
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