A 1-minute countdown with a clear background
This page loads a one-minute countdown, from 1:00 down to 0:00, on a transparent background. It’s the timer editors reach for most: a 60-second challenge, a “you have one minute” quiz round, a cooking or workout interval, a product reveal, or a giveaway that ends on screen. Change the length to anything from a few seconds to many hours, add “TIME’S UP” as the finish text, or make the last ten seconds flash red with a timed colour change.
Because the background is transparent, the countdown sits directly over your footage. There’s no green to key out, so there’s no green fringe around the numbers, no spill in dark shadows, and no keyer to set up again when you reuse the timer in your next video. Drop shadows and outlines keep their soft edges, which a chroma key would eat away. Use the transparent WebM in CapCut desktop, DaVinci Resolve or OBS, or the PNG sequence in Premiere Pro and After Effects.
On iPhone or in CapCut mobile, the green-screen MP4 is one click away.
More timer presets
- Custom timerEvery setting, starting from the defaults
- Transparent stopwatchCounts up from 0:00 on a clear background
- 24-hour timerCounts up in hh:mm:ss for challenge videos
- Speedrun timerMilliseconds in a monospace font
- 4K timer overlay3840×2160 with a transparent background
- 1-hour countdownFrom 01:00:00 down to 00:00:00
Which download should I use?
| Your editor | Best download | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| CapCut on iPhone / Android | Green-screen MP4 | Overlay → add the MP4 → Remove background → Chroma key, pick the green. Light text on a black MP4 also works with Blend → Screen. |
| CapCut desktop | Transparent WebM | Drag the WebM onto a track above your video. |
| DaVinci Resolve | Transparent WebM or PNG sequence | Put the clip on a track above your footage. |
| Premiere Pro / After Effects | PNG sequence (ZIP) | Unzip, import the first PNG and tick “Image Sequence”. The ZIP includes step-by-step notes. |
| Final Cut Pro / iMovie | Green-screen MP4 | Final Cut: Keyer effect. iMovie: Green/Blue Screen. |
| OBS Studio | Transparent WebM | Add a Media Source and choose the WebM. |
Which browsers work?
| Download | Works in | Doesn't work in |
|---|---|---|
| Transparent WebM | Chrome, Edge, Opera and Brave on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook. Usually Chrome on Android too. | iPhone and iPad, whose video apps don't use WebM. Other browsers vary, and the page tells you. |
| MP4 and green-screen MP4 | Safari 16.4+ on Mac, iPhone and iPad (including Chrome and Firefox on iPhone, which use Safari's engine), Chrome and Edge, Firefox 130+ on computers, Chrome on Android. | Older browsers without WebCodecs. |
| PNG and PNG sequence | Every modern browser. | — |
The page checks your browser and marks any download that won't work. Videos are made much faster than real time: a 10-minute timer usually takes a few seconds, and it keeps going if you switch to another tab on a computer. On iPhone, keep the page open until it finishes.
Questions about the countdown timer
How do I make the last 10 seconds turn red?
Under Timed colour changes, add a change at 0:10 and pick red. Tick flash to make it blink. On a countdown, the colour applies when the time left is at or below that value.
Can the countdown show text at zero?
Yes. Type it into “Text at finish”, for example TIME’S UP or GO!, and use “Hold at end” to keep it on screen for a few seconds.
Will it line up with my 30 or 60 fps project?
Yes. The numbers change exactly on each second, so the overlay matches any frame rate. If your editor needs a fixed rate, set Video frame rate to 30 or 60 fps before exporting.