"Roll back the clock" effect

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Will Farquharson

Newbie Location: Scotland Joined: May 21, 2019 19:38 Messages: 6 Offline

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May 27, 2019 16:37

I want to achieve an effect where a title will say "2019", then over the course of a few seconds, rapidly spin back to 1986.

I'm a complete novice with this tool, only started at the weekend, but I had a bash... I tried creating loads and loads of individual Title clips, each with "2019", "2018", "2017"... and so on, and thought I might find a transition effect that would do it. I quickly lost the will to live doing it that way though.

I found an animated clock in one of the bundled libraries, but I couldn't figure out how to make it spin backwards (seems there wasn't a "reverse" option on it).

I need to give the viewer the feeling of zipping back in time.

Can anyone help me with the effect I mentioned there, or something else I could do to visualise the transition from 2019 to 1986?

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

May 27, 2019 21:02

Quote I found an animated clock in one of the bundled libraries, but I couldn't figure out how to make it spin backwards (seems there wasn't a "reverse" option on it).

I need to give the viewer the feeling of zipping back in time.

The animated Clock is a PiP object. Here is how to do it. Place it on the timeline by itself and do a Produce Range on it for Mpeg-4 1280 x720/30p (16 Mbps) using SVRT. Use this produced clock video wherever you want on the timeline. Click to highlight it. Go to Tools/Power Tools/Video in Reverse to make that clock go in reverse like you see in the Twilight Zone!!

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