I have been googling and searching in this forum, and it seems the only way to have a counter on screen that's not related to time, you'll need to manually make stills for each and every number and place these manually on the timeline.

In other words, first I need to make...

1.psd
2.psd
3.psd
...
100.psd

Then import them all as stills, and then place them where I need them

Sounds like a really tedious job. That's no problem though, unless someone knows of a more effective way of doing this!

Well, as you mentioned PSD I'm assuming you're using Photoshop. If so then you could always draw the first one by hand and then based on that as a template you could batch generate the rest. Would take about a minute. And the styles used fro each one would be 100% coinsistent, i.e drop shadow, colours etc etc

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