Counter Expression help

[Sam Moulton]

add an expression control slider to your text layer set a keyframe at 0 with a value of 1600, set a value at 1.5 seconds of 2007 then add the following expression to the slider

loopOut(“cycle”)

then use the pick whip to link to the slider and add value.toFixed(0) to the end so it looks like this:

effect(“Slider Control”)(“Slider”).value.toFixed(0);

I think this is easier than building in a loop to the time value.

[Mike Clasby]

OK, this seems to work, on the Source text, it gives you 1 year from 1600 every 1.5 sec:

countUp = 1600 + Math.floor(time/1.5);

[countUp]

[Cptryg]

Thanks, YikesMike. That’s exactly what I needed!

[Sam Moulton]

that probably makes more sense. when I first read the request I thought he wanted to loop between 1600 and 2007 every 1.5 seconds. I must need a nap.