LJS Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Hey guys, Just wondered if anyone knew where I could get a countdown timer for a powerpoint presentation to be used in a show. I was imagining a '24' style countdown clock from 4 minutes to 0 counting down minutes and seconds. It would need to start on autocue or mouse click from the presentation. Thought it would be simple to find but I was very wrong so thought someone on here might know where I could find one. Thanks for any ideas you have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRW Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Hey guys, Just wondered if anyone knew where I could get a countdown timer for a powerpoint presentation to be used in a show. I was imagining a '24' style countdown clock from 4 minutes to 0 counting down minutes and seconds. It would need to start on autocue or mouse click from the presentation. Thought it would be simple to find but I was very wrong so thought someone on here might know where I could find one. Thanks for any ideas you have! I'm not sure about any pre-existing ones, but the most sensible solution to me would be to make the clip as a video file and embed that. A not-so-elegant solution would be to have 240 slides each with a different time on, all linked to run one second after the other, although I can imagine this not being quite as accurate as powerpoint would have you believe! Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter F Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Hey guys, Just wondered if anyone knew where I could get a countdown timer for a powerpoint presentation to be used in a show. I was imagining a '24' style countdown clock from 4 minutes to 0 counting down minutes and seconds. It would need to start on autocue or mouse click from the presentation. Thought it would be simple to find but I was very wrong so thought someone on here might know where I could find one. Thanks for any ideas you have! A Blue Room person, David Duffy has already given you a great piece of stopwatch/timer/countdown software. It's here: http://www.audiovisualdevices.com.au/softw...timer/timer.php You can pretend it is inside a powerpoint slide by putting your powerpoint on a secondary screen and then putting the output of the timer software over the top of the slide. You then have to start it using his software and not powerpoint. It's a bit hard to explain, easiest thing to do is download it and figure it out yourself. If you struggle, pm me and I'll go through it. Cheers, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJS Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 Thanks for the response, I found a way round it similar to what you suggested, took a while to do but as you say its more accurate than the slides version. There was me thinking the slideshow for this show was going to be easy! finding resources is harder than I first thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phill Power Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 We've used this one - http://www.tushar-mehta.com/powerpoint/ppt_timer/index.htm - it's a plugin for actual PowerPoint, so you can format it to match your presentation. But don't ever trust the timings of PowerPoint animations/transitions! Not only will they differ substantially between machines, but also between slides in the same presentation, time of day, ambient temperature and phase of moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wol Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Have a search on the blue room I know for sure that theres a pretty much identical thread along the same lines which had some solutions in. Whenever I want to do a '24' style countdown, I use a swf file which I generated, and resolume to trigger it. Works nicely and haven't had any problems with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzer82 Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Have a search on the blue room I know for sure that theres a pretty much identical thread along the same lines which had some solutions in. Whenever I want to do a '24' style countdown, I use a swf file which I generated, and resolume to trigger it. Works nicely and haven't had any problems with it. I have knocked up a real time countdown clock before using Flash, it's pretty easy just set a variable to your target date in seconds then compare that to the current time in seconds and refresh every second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian.michael.williams Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 In Powerpoint 2007 a colleague showed me a set of freely available microsoft templates that can do this - might be worth a bash in future. Glad you found an appropriate solution! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyhanson Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 We have used one that runs in a web browser. http://www.speakertimer.co.uk It's free, you just need to press F11 to full screen it in a browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 By "we have used" I think you mean "we have made"... Full disclosure!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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