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A better scale zoom with exponential scale

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A better scale zoom with exponential scale

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- [Instructor] So, here is a really quick and simple helpful little trick that nobody ever seems to bring up to beginning After Effects animators. I'm in Chapter 303 Exponential Scale. Now, we all want to do sweet scale zooms of things like text and objects that fly at the screen, then vanish past our hypothetical camera's view, because it's cool and effective. And when I hit the space bar to preview, I've done just that with the word Zoom in my composition here. I used two simple scale keyframes to scale it perfectly through the second O and then it's gone. But, when we watch it in real time, it starts off really fast and then slows as it gets bigger, and it's just not natural. It's not organic. It doesn't feel right. It screws up the energy and the pacing, and, well, you know what? There's a quick and simple thing you can do called exponential scale to solve this problem. So, I'm going to go ahead and pause playback by hitting the space bar, and I'm going to go ahead and place my…

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