ABSTRACT
in After Effects 6.0 Adobe added the most powerful text animation engine anyone had ever seen, and the Text effects became largely forgotten. In After Effects CS4, half of the Text effects were removed, stripped of their ranks, and discarded into the Obsolete category. The Numbers effect generates numbers; numbers of all kinds. Numbers can generate random numbers (including numbers with multiple decimal places), animate numbers counting forwards or backwards, it can generate time passing, the current timecode, the date, and more. The remainder of the properties for the Numbers effect pertain to the appearance of the numbers. For the most part these are self-explanatory, and are similar to other what we’ve seen these properties do in other effects. The Timecode effect is actually very similar to the Numbers effect with one of the Timecode options selected. It essentially just displays the timecode of the current frame.
