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January 30, 2023
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Text / Numbers Effect value limited to 30000?

  • January 30, 2023
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Hi,

 

I'm trying to make animated historic battles and I need to keyframe numbers countdown (representing army sizes) but the problem I ran into is that the Text / Numbers effect value is limited to max 30000. And I'll often need to show much larger numbers.

 

In the current project I need to show 86400 and then keyframe the number to lower values at multiple points in the video as the battle progresses.

 

I'm just getting into AE (using it for about 1 week) and it would seem that I need "expressions" code to achieve that? Sadly I have 0 knowledge of the language that AE uses. Or am I just using the wrong tool for this - though text / numbers effect seems ideal for it - if not for the 30000 limit sadly.

 

Thanks!

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Correct answer Mylenium

All you are ever going to need:

 

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

 

Yes, effects are limited to 32000-ish due to the underlying 16 bit integer math for the value sliders.

 

Mylenium 

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January 30, 2023

All you are ever going to need:

 

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

 

Yes, effects are limited to 32000-ish due to the underlying 16 bit integer math for the value sliders.

 

Mylenium 

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    kresimirk39695749Author
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    January 30, 2023

    Thanks once again Mylenium! It's good I didn't know that I'll need to learn (copy paste) JS to work in AE, or I might not have went for it. Now I kind of have to x)

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