Scale

Now we can switch back to the Transform tool

To start animating, go to the top right

Beside Animators, click Add Animator

Then select, Scale

To set the starting values for the animation, let's go down

You can drag this border to see them better

To adjust both vertical and horizontal scale at onece, click on this button on the right, and choose single

Then we can set it to 0

Next, we adjust the Range

Set the Offset value to be -100

To mark it as the start, click the box on the right,

then click the diamond on top

If we click on the text layer, and press U on the keyboard

Now we can see there is a keyframe marked at 0 seconds

You can also drag this border to see it better

To remove distractions,

click on the green pen icon on top

then disable overlay

Then go back to Range, and set the offset to 100

A new keyframe will be automatically created

Lastly,

Set the Shape to Ramp Up

And change the Easing to Custom Cubic

Then set Ease High to 0.5

While Ease Low to 1

And now we have a scale up text animation, for free

To align it to the centre 

Start with how the final result looks like

Today we will be making a smooth text animation in Autograph, a free After Effects alternative

Then cut to already composition ready

Click on text tool

Start writing a sample text

Add text

Align it if necessary

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Animator, add position

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add Opacity

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Set the settings

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Go to range

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Use these settings

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Keyframe 0s, and 2s

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Play

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For rendering, click here, for more explanation of each part, here, or not :p

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