number counter

[Mike Clasby]

Here’s a Dan expression that goes on Source Text, link below.

1) Put any letter on the screen where you want it with the Text Tool, the font you want and the size you want for your counter.

Add the following expression for Source Text (Copy the expression, Alt-Click the Source Text Stopwatch, Paste, click outside the box):

numDecimals = 0;
commas = true;
dollarSign = false;
beginCount = 0;
endCount = 130000;
dur = 4;

t = time – inPoint;
s = linear (t, 0, dur, beginCount, endCount).toFixed(numDecimals);

prefix = “”;
if (s[0] == “-“){
prefix = “-“;
s = s.substr(1);
}
if(dollarSign) prefix += “$”;

if (commas){
decimals = “”;
if (numDecimals > 0){
decimals = s.substr(-(numDecimals + 1));
s = s.substr(0,s.length – (numDecimals + 1));
}
outStr = s.substr(-s.length, (s.length-1)%3 +1);
for (i = Math.floor((s.length-1)/3); i > 0; i–){
outStr += “,” + s.substr(-i*3,3);
}
prefix + outStr + decimals;
}else{
prefix + s;
}

This will count from zero to 130,000 in four seconds (dur, line 6 in code above).

To go from 130,000 back to 1000, first trim that first text layer (Alt }) then I’d duplicate the Text layer, slide it back until it takes over where the first text layer stops, then change the expression, line 4 to;

beginCount = 130,000;

and line 5 to:

endCount = 1000;

That should do it. Dan’s expression lives here for a complete explanation:

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

[Reuben Fink]

thanks much. I’ll try this out first thing tomorrow.

[Reuben Fink]

Your suggestion worked perfect.
Much thanks.

[Troy Ruff]

Thank you thank you, I have been trying to figure out how to do this and with no suggests until now, it works beautifully . Thanks so much.

Troy

Troy Ruff

[Jonny Hal]

Thanks so much — really helped me out.

[Leandro Sarmento da silva]

Helped me a lot!
I made some modifications to this expression, to make it the most common AE FX.
As an example, add a “Slider Control” on the key frame.
example:

effect (“Slider Control”) (“Slider”) added in place of the value of “beginCount” and “endCount”

beginCount = effect (“Slider Control”) (“Slider”);
endCount = effect (“Slider Control”) (“Slider”);

So you have control over the length “dur”
What you can put as “0”

For only with such modifications you already have the control when it starts and ends when through the key frame.

[Danielle See]

Another thank you from me, I’m so stoked with this!!

[Ernesto Sanchez]

I’m working on a project and I used this code and it works great, thank you for that!

I’m trying to include text at the end of the number, for example, I have the the counter ending at $4.2 but I wanted to add the “M” after the number 2, how can I do that.

Please help.

[Dan Ebberts]

You should be able to change the last 4 lines to something like this:

prefix + outStr + decimals + “M”;
}else{
prefix + s + “M”;
}

Dan

[Ernesto Sanchez]

It worked! Thank you Dan!