cycling layers

[Andrei Popa]

What I suggest you do is make a csv, tsv or json file and use it to populate your text fields. You can easily make csv and tsv with google sheets.

This post shows you how to use them inside after effects.
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/data-driven-animations.html

You can put the day in column 1 and the text for that day in column 2.
If you have multiple text layers for each day, you can even use more columns.

Then, with a slider inside after effects you select the day.
And with some expression inside each text layer you can get the before and after day text(by replacing myDay with myDay-1 or myDay-2). They should look similar to this:

myDay = thisComp.layer("Controls").effect("Slider Control")("Slider")
footage("myTable.csv").dataValue([myDay,1])

With this setup, all you have to do is open After Effects, change slider and render.
And you have all past days and unlimited future days saved inside a file.

If you wish me to help you with the setup, you can contact me and we can work something out.

Andrei
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[Vojtěch Palme]

Thank you, this was an approach I used the first time I was in the mood for tackling this issue a few months ago. I think it worked quite well with the exception of numbers starting with zero – the minutes field, that is a separate layer from hours. It would always load without it – 08 : 05 would load as 8 : 5
I don’t think I’ve managed to resolve it before but I’m gonna try again.