Counter Countdown Monospaced no longer working

[casual_Echo2146]

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!

[JohnColombo · Accepted solution]

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]

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!

[JohnColombo]

Glad to hear it was that simple!

Cheers,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team