how to animate vertical scale?

[Deadittex]

Uhm the scale twirl menu, of the layer, click on the chain to unconstrain the proportions… and then animate it.. Uhm Unless I am missunderstanding what you are asking…

I am sorry this came off as a little, condesending , trust me it is not ment that way.. I am just waking up is all. . . haven’t had a cup of Joe yet ..

[Yosef Adest]

I’m not a total newbie, but you’ll excuse my ignorance, I really don’t know what you’re talking about.. Maybe you can explain in different words.. I don’t see anything that’s a chain, and there’s no scale twirl manu, scale is one of the properties, and it’s not vertical scale. Vertical scale seems only editable via the text properties in the upper right hand corner of the screen and not via keyframes.. Please elaborate, again I’m sorry for my ignorance on this.. thanks..

[Mrs Longstocking]

well there’s two ways to do this and which one you choose depends on how much flexibility you need.
Ok, you go to your Text-Layer. You should see ‘Transform’ and ‘Text’ there as Options. Press ‘s’ to reveal the Scale Properties of the layer. This Scale Property here will affect the whole layer and the Text with it of course. On the left to your values displayed there’s a little switch. Its set to hold the proportions while scaling by default. click on it and the icon will disappear. For vertical scale you want to change the Y-Value which is the second one. You should now be able to change this value without the X-Value changing with it.
Another way is to use that little switch that says ‘animate’ which you find on the line of the Text-Property menu. click on it and select scale from the pop-up. This adds an Animator to your Text-Properties. From here on it’s all the same. click on the little switch to unconstrain the proportions…
Hope that helps, cheers