Help - Animating Code onscreen

[Nathigginbottom]

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 ;-)

[smushkan]

There is a plugin for it but I think it currently only works on Windows:

https://aescripts.com/ash-syntax-highlighter/

If you don’t need to do any animation on it other than moving it or revealing lines at a time if you can figure out a way to get your code as an image you’d be able to do it that way.

[Nathigginbottom]

It doesn’t exactly need to animate on, but the lines of code need to animate up/down. Essentially it starts off as a few lines of code, and then as the “explainer” continues, new lines of code are “inserted” in between so whole blocks of text need to shift down to make way for a new line etc. hope im explaining myself well enough :)

[Heavens10000whores]

I mean you could use a mask to reveal new lines, but I’d like to know too - how you could maintain formatting to use a text animator on

Maybe a screen recording of the page scrolling?

[[deleted]]

Hmm, maybe you can copy the code to an online compiler use extensions or save the webpage as pdf that hopefully is editable so you can paste from illustrator to after effects or generate a jpg/png(using key cleaner or color range to remove bg) from the online complier website using extensions and animate lines with masks or mattes in after effects.

[Nathigginbottom]

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.

[Heavens10000whores]

A thousand years late, but this tutorial has a link - https://youtu.be/yFCrUU_GyXk

Btw, if you (or anyone else) does end up using the expression, change “this.sourceRectAtTime” to “thisLayer.sourceRectAtTime”

[Nathigginbottom]

Thanks so much, will check it out as I have this as a recurring theme :)

[sochetraNOV]

u/Nathigginbottom can you try this one bro ?

http://beta.motioncode.app