Design layout of text in After Effects or...?

I need to produce a motion, it displays the menu items and prices (similar to a takeout menu).

I don't know what the best way to address the issue. Should I create the page layout in After Effects or not?

If I don't need animate the text, is it more efficient only design in Indesign and exporting as a pdf or image file?

We greatly appreciate any recommendations or advice?

I almost always put in page complex text in Illustrator or Photoshop with the text in its final position. It is easier and faster, and there is better alignment tools. If I intend to use animations to text so usually I'll layout of the text in Photoshop, because you can convert text from Photoshop to editable text layers, and, unfortunately, this is not a feature yet implemented in it HAVE - AE workflow. You can get complex projects of text created in Illustrator into Photoshop with editable text layers, if you use the export function in artificial intelligence, but you may need some rearranging layers in Photoshop to get the project to work directly in AE as a model.

If I was doing something like takeout menu of the restaurant and I wanted to use animations of text I would create the Photoshop document in the aspect ratio of the width of your finished AE comp menu so let's say that the menu real life was 9 X 12 inches, then the Photoshop document would be 1920 X 2560. Layout of your menu with each item of text you want to animate on a separate layer, give up the layer effects, and then import the Photoshop file as a model while the dimensions of the layer, create your text animations using text animations, then nest the menu layout in a standard HD model and animate the position and scale of the menu. I do a lot of this sort of thing and this workflow is much more effective than to try to create a layout of complex text in AE with the limited text tools available.

I also have a good amount of work in In Design for use in After Effects. That's where you get some really amazing text tools. In the design of Illustrator to PDF, then Illustrator Photoshop via export, then Photoshop for AE as a model.

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