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  Posted by Nicholas Adamson on May 25, 2014 at 2:08 am

  Hello. I’ll be making a video like this https://vimeo.com/56783189 , and am gonna start early so its not some big mess to start in 2015.

  Using the Numbers effect doesn’t display the date in the format I want, as I simply wish to just show it in Month Name + Day #, so January 1. Exactly as shown in the above video. Also tried out date() expressions and none worked the way I wanted to. Is there any fast way of doing this or will I need to create a bunch of text layers? Would it be easier in Premiere?

  Thanks in advance.

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  Dan Ebberts replied 12 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dan Ebberts

  May 25, 2014 at 2:47 pm

  Play around with this:

  msPerDay = 86400000;
  period = 1; // change day every 1 second
  months = [“January”,”February”,”March”,”April”,”May”,”June”,”July”,”August”,”September”,”October”,”November”,”December”];

  curSeg = Math.floor(time/period);
  d = new Date(curSeg*msPerDay);
  months[d.getUTCMonth()] + ” ” + d.getUTCDate()

  Dan

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