Technique for Animated Number Countdown with Commas

[Rico Nguyen]

pls show me how to do If I want to take one number after common?
Many thanks!

[Tim Garber]

Curious. This looks like it should work but I am getting syntax errors of a few different lines.

The first line, but I discovered if I re-pickwhip the Slider control the value doesn’t change but the syntax is solved,

More complicated for me since I don’t code, is line 7. Just a syntax with no explanation.

I’m using the most current version, 17.5.1

[Kevin Camp]

To go over 1 million you can also use an angle control rather than a slider control. It’s an odd work around but it works.

[Filip Vandueren]

Here’s how to do things like this in the new Javascript engine:

var num = effect("Point Control")("Point")[0];
num.toLocaleString('en-EN', {style: "currency", currency: "USD"});

see here for all possible options:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/NumberFormat/NumberFormat

[Kevin Camp]

That is really cool Filip!

[Tom Davis]

In the latest version of After Effects you can do the following:

Apply an angle control to a text layer (sliders are limited to 1 million) and then add the following expression to the source text:

var num = parseFloat(effect("Angle Control")("Angle")); 
num.toLocaleString("en-GB");

I’ve also written a blog post with more information on how to create a number counter with commas in After Effects including how to include currency options as well!

[Claire Presnall]

11 years later, and this was EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks!!!