Trying to grow size of font

[stephanp34447149]

I am creating a video and I want to have text that when it appears it grows in size then reduces back to the regular size. I have created the text using the a title screen. When I go in to Effects control I try to scale the size of the text but as the size of the text changes it keeps changing the position of the text.

I want to be able to grow the size of the text while it stays in the same place and I can't figure out how.

Please help!

(Also I am using a Mac and have Adobe Premier Pro CS5.5)

[Ann Bens]

If your text is off centre then yes it will change position when scale.

In other words you need to keyframe position also to get were you want it.

[Peru Bob]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Ann+Bens  wrote

In other words you need to keyframe position also to get were you want it.

...or keyframe anchor point.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Center Justify the text in the title.  Default is Left Justified.

[stefan_gru]

Stephan: Move the anchor point from the default center of the text to the lower left corner of the text. That way, then you keyframe the scale, the text will grow and keep the anchor point, well, anchored at the lower left and animate as you wish.

Default anchor point (the blue circled crosshair icon):

Move the anchor point to the lower left of your word:

Now when you change the scale, the word resizes and stays fixed to that lower left corner:

This article may be of assistance in understanding the anchor point: Apply motion adjustments to clips in Premiere Pro

[stefan_gru]

Stephan: Does that help you?

[briremo]

Hey Stefan,  I am having an issue with this very problem. I have 3 individual lines of text in the lower right hand corner of the scene. I want the text to scale up but even though i have the anchor point in the lower right hand corner of each line of text, the text line moves toward the right edge of the screen (and even bleeds over). I need it to stay anchored on the right side of the frame and scale upward and inward, without monkeying around with all the positioning.

I did some experimenting and it looks like everything "pushes away" from the center of the screen.

[stefan_gru]

Briremo: Please post a screen shot of the lines of text in the Essential Graphics panel. Make sure all the editing tools in the panel are visible by selecting one of the lines of text — or the block of text if they are all in one motion graphic item.

[briremo]

thanks chief

[briremo]

Using the scale animation causes everything to move away from the center of the image regardless of where the anchor point is

[briremo · Accepted solution]

HA! i figured it out!

I realized the there must be an anchor point for the frame itself as everything was moving away from the center! When i saw the Anchor point values equaling half the screen resolution i realized the center of the screen was the anchor point

Once I figured that out i read you can click on 'Motion" in the effects tools and that shows the anchor point which i then moved! BOOM Baby!

Am happy dancing