Hi all! Today we’ll learn how to create a timer using a regular expression in After Effects. Yes, you can use plugins and stuff, but why? 😉 In fact, everything is very, very simple:

To do this, you will need five steps:
1. Create a new composition in which you need to use a timer
2. Create a new text layer
3. Hold down the “Alt” key and click on the clock in the properties of the text sources layer:

4. Insert the regular expression:

st = 60;  
t = st - time;  
c = timeToTimecode(t);  
c = c.substring(6,24)

Rejoice 🙂

A video demonstrating the whole process in a more visual form is below:

Thank you for your attention! As always, if you have any questions, write to Telegram or email.