After Effects Tutorial - Expressions for Animated Number Counter with Slider Control

Videos with number animations look slick. Why just display a static number or percentage on screen when you can have an animation scrolling the numbers up to your target number? You can create many numeric animations efficiently with just one layer in your composition by applying the Slider Control effect and using an expression. I get a lot of questions about how to do this, as figuring out the proper expression can be confusing when it comes to rounding numbers or adding commas to large numbers. Well, wonder no more! My video tutorial will show you a couple key expressions you need to know when dealing with this situation. Advanced knowledge of expressions is not needed, just how to copy and paste. You’ll learn how to apply the Slider Control and create the expression. Then, you’ll learn how to amend the expression based on if you are trying to round the number to a whole number, have a select number of digits after the decimal point, and/or add a comma in the number. I’ve provided the expressions bel