Counter Countdown Monospaced no longer working

Question

Hello all!

I've been using the text animation present for Counter Countdown Monospaced the last week or so without any issues to make little rolling number animations for a corporate job I'm working on.

Yesterday I was experiencing some crashes and performance issues with a different project I had running alongside this one, so I updated After Effects to 25.5.0, and updated the Maxon plugins I was using and that seemed to resolve that issue, but when I reloaded the first project to create more counter animations the preset no longer appears to be working.

I tried saving a version of the project as AE 24 but the same problem is showing up in there.

It's showing up errors in a few lines of the expression, are there any expression supremos that can help me resolve the issue? I've pasted the screenshots below.

Thanks in advance!

JohnColombo17100380 · Accepted Answer

Hi @casual_Echo2146,Thank you for reporting this. If you change the expression engine in the project to JavaScript (in File > Project Settings... > Expressions), do the errors persist? It looks like you might have somehow changed your project to use the Legacy ExtendScript engine, which doesn't support the syntax used by the new presets. Cheers,- John, After Effects Engineering Team

casual_Echo2146 · Answer

Excellent that was it, problem solved!

I imported the project I was working on into a project supplied by my client, I think they must have set their project up with the Legacy ExtendScript engine as you suggested. I switched it back and it's all working fine now! Thanks you very much for your swift reply!

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