Amateur with AE trouble with Anchor points

[aspire029]

Hey guys

I appoligise in advance if my question doesnt reveal everything to help answer my question.

I am still in the very early phase of learning after effects and trying to get this transiton to stay anchored to the center as it comes in from the left. Not sure what i am doing wrong but here is the vid link via google drive to see the issue im having. You can see it anchors it self to the right since but no matter what i do with anchoring i cant get it to scale into a proper center. Hopefully someone knows what i am talking about.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uAcqcPDSpMqJU_lmrCsRh9kih8i5Xx3K/view?usp=sharing

[aspire029]

Maybe i should be keyframing the Anchor point? hmm

[Rick Gerard]

It looks like you have a shape layer or a nested comp with three circles. If you want the far left circle to be in the center of the screen, but the anchor point over the center of the far left circle. 

No matter what you do the slide in, stop, then scale up is not going to look as good as it would change the animation up so that the first circle expands to the center of the screen, then the second circle starts growing behind the first circle and both move so that the pair is centered, then as the third moves up, the three transition to being centered again. Something like that would call for animation of the position of the 3 circles and leaving the anchor point in the center of the layer.

[aspire029]

Thanks @Rick Gerard  much appreciated