How to Make a Countdown In After Effects Part 1

This is a tutorial on how to make a basic countdown using Adobe CS3 After Effects. If you find this tutorial to be helpful or if you think it totally sucks, please leave a comment. I am going to use all comments to make my videos better in the future. If you really like it and want to know more, I will be making some tutorials on how to make more advanced countdowns and other things.
~foureyes001

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• countdowns
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[RitinhaSoaresMoura]

How do I do it with dates?

[foureyes001]

@RitinhaSoaresMoura idk.

[musicdanny7]

Cómo lo creo solamente con minutos y segundos??

[foureyes001]

@musicdanny7 Sorry. I don't speak Spanish.

[EGWorldOnline]

wait wait minute and second.if i do hours and minute and second .hold on is this software got anywhere download full version or you just demo?

[lucasosucesso]

@foureyes001 he asked how to create a countdown just with minutes and seconds.

[nojobstv]

@foureyes001 sorry, create the mask on the precomposition.

[nojobstv]

@foureyes001 it should work, but if it doesn´t, precompose the timer (control+shift+c or command + shift + c if you´re on a mac) and create a mask on the timer. 

[foureyes001]

@nojobstv Already tried that. It doesn't work.

[nojobstv]

@musicdanny7 just mask out what you want to exclude.

[dasuperior]

not working in cs4



[stylizhmathias]

@RitinhaSoaresMoura In number, go to > type, short date or long date