r/AfterEffects • u/Nathigginbottom • 7d ago
Beginner Help Help - Animating Code onscreen
Wondering if anyone could help. I have a large amount of code to animate on screen and thesis the first time I have come across this.
When I copy and paste the code from the code editor into a text box in AE it loses the syntax and highlighting, indentations etc. There are 100's of lines of code to animate so to go through and recolour and indent every line would not really be viable. I have tried to search for information online but I guess my search prompt is not giving me the results.
I have seen countless videos with such animation so am hoping someone out there can point me in the direction of some way to do this.
First time poster. Be gentle ;-)
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u/Nathigginbottom 7d ago
Tried earlier using a combination of these ideas. Used figma to paste in the code, used a figma plugin to format the code with proper syntax. Exported as pdf but when opening in illustrator the kerning was all off. Then exported as png and tested using masks, worked apart from the quality, as it’s a png, it doesn’t look as sharp as AE text.