[Nick Natteau]

Hi Declan,

Thank you so much for all your help! It worked!

[Nick Natteau]

Thanks very much Declan.

Actually I did just that: used point instead of slider as you suggested, then added 3 keyframes (one for 12, one for 17,000 and one for 2,400,000,000)…but from 12 to 17,000 the numbers are going in reverse. Really weird.

And when I now delete the middle keyframe and just go from 12 to 17,000 the number seems to ramp up to 6,000,000 and the go instantly down to 17,000.

[Nick Natteau]

Thanks very much Declan.

Actually I did just that: used point instead of slider as you suggested, then added 3 keyframes (one for 12, one for 17,000 and one for 2,400,000,000)…but after I did that: from 12 to 17,000 the numbers were then going in reverse and after 17,000 forward. I can’t make it out. Will try again.

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Declan,

Sorry to keep bothering you like this. But my final question: how would I ramp up my numbers in speed.

For example in my animation I have to show the Reichsmark hyperinflation increasing from
$1=12 Rm in 1919 to $1=17,000 Rm by 1923…

But in 1923 it increases dramatically from $1=17,000 Rm in Jan 1923 to $1=4,200,000,000 by Dec 1923

So I would need my numbers to ramp up in speed dramatically. Does this require another expression???

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Declan,

Sorry but I can’t get it to work. I just copy and pasted your last line exactly as you had it and now nothing appears:

“$” + (effect(“Point Control”)(“Point”)[0].value.toFixed(0)).replace(/(d)(?=(d{3})+(?!d))/g, “$1,”);

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Declan,

If I might just ask you another follow up question regarding the numbers effect.

I’m doing this for a documentary film about Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany when the Reichmark went from 12 Rm to the dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 Rm.

So my problem now is that in AE the number seems to stop at 1,000,000. How do I get past this??? I’m sure there’s a way but i can’t figure out. Thank you very much in advance.

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Dave,

I just posted a reply to you in a wrong thread, I meant to post here in the AE thread.

I uploaded to Vimeo a screencast I made of the terrible noise problem I’m having in Keylight. Could you possibly just take a quick look at my screencast, it’s very short. But it will show you exactly what’s going, the issue I’m having regarding noise:

https://vimeo.com/37021102

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Dave,

I just posted a reply to you in a wrong thread, I meant to post here in the AE thread.

I uploaded to Vimeo a screencast I made of the terrible noise problem I’m having in Keylight. Could you possibly just take a quick look at my screencast, it’s very short. But it will show you exactly what’s going, the issue I’m having regarding noise:

Screencast

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Dave,

I was wondering if you could possibly take a look at my chromakeying work in Keylight that I posted here on Vimeo, it’s a short screencast of the noise issue I keep encountering in Keylight, no matter what I do:

Screencast

[Nick Natteau]

Hi Decan,

One more question. If this number were a currency instead of a distance and i wanted the “$” symbol before instead of after the number, where in the expression would the “$” symbol have to go to be before rather than after the number?

Thanks again so much for helping me out with this.