Digital counter (odometer) effect

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Digital counter (odometer) effect

Hi Folks.

Does anyone know if I can animate a digital counter/odometer that accurately counts up from 0 to whaterver (actually $30,000) at high speed. I know there's a livefont digital counter but I can't control the 'counting' and the numbers are too random.
If it can't be done natively is there a plugin that I can get.

many thanks
Roger

Quad G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Mar 1, 2006 1:23 AM

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roj harris Author

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Mar 2, 2006 5:48 AM in response to roj harris

Blimey!

So there's no way to do this. Perhaps someone should write a plugin.
I guess I'll have to try and do it in Flash and export a movie..now there's an
idea. cool

bye
Roger

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Mar 2, 2006 6:36 AM in response to roj harris

You might be able to kluge together something from the ideas here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1610356&#1610356

Patrick's FCP plug-in is very helpful. You can get a leading "$", but I think you're up the creek in terms of anything more complicated than an unformatted integer (ie., if you set the FCP Timecode Generator filter format to frames, you'll get 22371, say, as opposed to 22,371)

Hope it helps.

RFW

G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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roj harris Author

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Mar 2, 2006 7:47 AM in response to longstrider

Hi Longstrider,

Yet again you've saved the day! Patricks plugin will work fine for the job.
Also, I can do it right in FCP instead of motion first as I'm comping the whole thing in FC. Cool

Many thanks
Roger

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i5m

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Mar 2, 2006 8:13 AM in response to roj harris

I didn't reply originally since I don't know of a way to do it in Motion directly, but if you go down the fxscript route using FCP/FCE there are some other alternatives that you might be able to tweak to get to work:

clock filter from TMTS

FCE Counter

The Motion plugin language (FxPlug) looks a lot trickier to me than Fxscript, so don't hold out on Joe Blog coming up with a plugin. I figured out fxscript enough for me, but Fxplug just looks utterly confusing.

EDIT: Ignore this. Just seen that you've got it sorted

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