I also had a custom footers and using a combination of both plain and noframenumbering worked for me. This removes any footnotes and does not increase the frame increment.
\documentclass[]{beamer}
% Custom numbering for the footline
\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
\raisebox{5pt}{%
\makebox[\paperwidth]{%
\hfill\makebox[10pt]{%
\footnotesize\insertframenumber
}
}
}
}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[plain,noframenumbering]
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
Super cool content.
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Below I present two options:
The second fancier option (this might take longer to process for a presentation with many frames):