Useful AfterEffects Number Expressions

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Here’s a small collection of Adobe Aftereffect expressions I use to animate stats. If you’re like me and use Adobe Aftereffects often , you might find these helpful. It’s a short list at the moment but I hope to add more over time.

Count Up Percentage:

beginCount = 0;

stopCount = 40;

beginTime = 4; // start counting at time = 0

countDur = 2; // count for 4 seconds

“” + Math.round(linear(time,beginTime,beginTime + countDur,beginCount,stopCount)) + “%”

Regular Count Up:

startCount = 0;

endCount = 500000;

countDur = 200;

s = “” + Math.round(linear(time,0,countDur,startCount,endCount));

if (s.length > 3){

s.substr(0, s.length -3) + “,” + s.substr(-3);

}else{

s

}

Count Up With $:

numDecimals = 0;

commas = true;

dollarSign = false;

beginCount = 100000000000;

endCount = 1700000000000;

dur = Math.floor(thisLayer.outPoint-thisLayer.inPoint);

t = time — inPoint;

s = linear (t, 0, dur, beginCount, endCount).toFixed(numDecimals);

prefix = “$”;

if (s[0] == “-”){

prefix = “$”;

s = s.substr(1);

}

if(dollarSign) prefix += “$”;

if (commas){

decimals = “”;

if (numDecimals > 0){

decimals = s.substr(-(numDecimals + 1));

s = s.substr(0,s.length — (numDecimals + 1));

}

outStr = s.substr(-s.length, (s.length-1)%3 +1);

for (i = Math.floor((s.length-1)/3); i > 0; i — ){

outStr += “,” + s.substr(-i*3,3);

}

prefix + outStr + decimals;

}else{

prefix + s;

}