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andrzejgoulding
Inspiring
February 19, 2018
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Timecode Effect Font

  • February 19, 2018
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Hi There

Does anyone know what the actual font style is that is used in the timecode effect?

Cheers

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Correct answer katya_austin

dear mods, please read replies before rejecting

link takes to a perfectly legit site

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in any case it's Ayuthaya Regular, on a mac at least

~cheers

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Lee5E06
Participant
August 26, 2020

Does anyone know how to change the Timecode effect font?

    trashcaneron
    trashcaneron
    Inspiring
    July 29, 2021

    I've been trying to figure this out for ages. 

     

    You can change the font by pressing the "options" button of the NUMBERS effect and do some basic styling. But there are some limitations. 

     

    The NUMBERS effect only has the options for specific timecodes that are all whole numbers 24fps, 25fps, 30fps. So you're out of luck if you want to use any other time code or use the Time Source as compositon. Which would be ideal, by the way. For example, I'm trying to style timecode that is 23.976. But it's also a problem if you want to show 60fps or 59.94fps or any other timecode as well. 

     

    There might be a way using Red Giant's Numbers effect and use some expressions, but I don't really understand how to make that work. There's some useful info here, but it doesn't solve the problem. 

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8gb-HAMoEs

    trashcaneron
    trashcaneron
    Inspiring
    July 29, 2021

    After speaking with a few GRFX friends, I've figured out a way to stylize any timecode. 

     

    Use a regular text layer. Style how you want. Create an expression on source text 

    timeToCurrentFormat()

     

    It looks good now! But if the font isn't monospace, you end up with characters moving all over the place.

     

    To fix that, you need monospacer.  ($10 from AEScripts). 

     

    If the colon's look out of whack, just tweak the Y threshold. Explanation at 2 minutes here. 

     

    I don't love how much longer it takes to render vs. plain old Numbers, but it'll work. 

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      katya_austinCorrect answer
      Inspiring
      July 24, 2018

      dear mods, please read replies before rejecting

      link takes to a perfectly legit site

      ---

      in any case it's Ayuthaya Regular, on a mac at least

      ~cheers

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      andrzejgouldingAuthor
      Inspiring
      July 24, 2018

      Thanks dude!

      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Legend
      February 19, 2018

      The timecode effect simply uses the default system font, meaning Arial/ MS Symbol on a Windows system for instance.

      Mylenium

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