How to make counting numbers

Hi everybody!
Does someone know how to insert these counting numbers in a presentation?
I saw them on the presentation of iPhone OS 3.0.
On this vid it's around 5:40, where the number increases to 25.000:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/preview-iphone-os/
It would be very cool if somebody would know how to do that in Keynote '09
Greets
robsowa

MBP 17", 256 SSD, 2.9GHz, 8 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iWork '09

Posted on May 2, 2009 7:43 AM

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May 4, 2009 2:57 AM in response to robsowa

You'd probably need to make a graphic of digits 0-9 and then mask it off to single digit, then move the graphic fast and loop it. Last time I checked KN can't do builds on the mask or object independently, it does them together or not at all. So you'll have to make a shape with a cut-out see other threads for svg2key. Can do in Adobe Illustrator or anything else too. Having said that it's pretty easy to do the effect in other apps like motion, after effects. I did this in quartz:



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The numbers chase; t is year from 1990 to 2030; P is Population chases to 5 mil. The number chasing took about 10-20 min to patch. The flyby and everything else (gradient colour shifting over the day) took a day or so I guess as I tinkered with it quiet a bit to get movement how I liked it.

May 7, 2009 5:52 AM in response to robsowa

Not that familiar with what final cut xpress can do... sorry. If you want something really basic I can email you a .mov wrapped .qtz file that you can stretch in the timeline (to get the timing you want, as the file is rendered in FCP (it's code not image frames) it should render at whatever time-scale you want) that counts from 10000 to zero and from 10000 to 4000.

Perhaps Brians method is better for you.

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