New Countdown Timer in Premiere Pro

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

Timestamps:
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]

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.

[pubgsquads]

Your videos are very very helpful and infomative.

[chrishainstock]

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)

[Giegaskip]

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?

[gowatchmusic]

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.

[KevinGeeksOut]

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

[johnvargo]

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.

[Dando]

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

[PamelaBalusheva]

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!

[movie-trailer]

special thanks for the professional resources for editors 👏👍

[dennisdowding]

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?

[BiggBoned]

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.

[amcaesar]

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!

[farahasma]

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?

[ToddMcLeod-personal]

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?

[ghesepro]

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!

[pictureusfamily]

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

[jamanheslop]

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?

[anderss]

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

[smarthealthyandfit]

You have to have a pro account if you want to do a longer timer.