Analog or Digital Clock in movie

Hi,
I am wanting to put a analog or digital clock in a video I am making for a class. I doesn't have to show the real time but hopefully it will have hours:minutes:seconds. Does anyone know where I can get one?
Thanks.
Andy

If you have access to After Effects, you can do it under the "Textt" filter, then click on "Numbers." Pick a font, and then you can set what you need under the format tab. That should square you away. Or you could make your own digital clock with numbers in FCP, or with photoshop layers and set it up on a timeline manually. You could set up your incoming clip for one frame and just drop in the layers and theyll drop in sequence instead of dropping in every number one by one. All you would have to do is go through the trouble of making 01-59. Hope that helps.

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