Smooth

Now we can switch back to the Transform tool

To start animating, go to the top right

Beside Animators, click Add Animator

Then select, Position

Now click the button below it

to add another property alongside it

Select, Opacity

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

You can drag this border to see them better

In this example, let's make the text appear from the bottom

So decrease the vertical position

By clicking and dragging the right-hand value, to the left

You can also hold Shift on your keyboard to change the numbers faster

Then we set the opacity 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 from Linear, 

to Cubic

And now we have a smooth 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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