a number counter that goes from 01 to 30

[Mike Clasby]

The simplest way is, on a New Solid (Black if you want transparent) Effect>Text>Numbers, and set the Decimal Places to 0, and keyframe the Value/Offset to 1, then 30 down the timeline, uncheck Proportional Spacing.

Dan has a nifty counter expression here, but it’s pretty scary, and there’s reading involved to set the parameters. But it’s way cool:

https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/counter.html

[Sean Bowerman]

yeah that’s what i had, but i can’t get it to display 01, 02, etc instead of 1, 2… any ideas?

[Todd Kopriva]

Rick Gerard and Dan Ebberts have posted some good expressions for this purpose on the Adobe After Effects User-to-User Forum.

Here’s a link.

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