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I LOVE to use Separate Dimensions when animating the Position of a layer.
Unfortunately, you can't do that for scale or any other multi-dimensional property.
Or can you?
![image](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/608773dbb747ca31e60529ba/60aefec3a27414c5047abe29_8K0EDPaj7AAmGl13r6nsq9OXgRtArVaNwnnWBGQ326492.gif)
Here's simple way to Separate Dimensions on any multi-dimensional property.
Add 2 Slider Controls to your layer. Effect > Expression Control > Slider Control
- Rename the Slider Controls to Scale X and Scale Y
![image](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/608773dbb747ca31e60529ba/60aefec0eb44871aab43386b_YY2FsqeVyrkUR7rz5JthPPgr3ap3OhteBqWEXT4E26492.gif)
Now on your chosen property, Option/Alt + Click the stopwatch to Add an Expression
Add this expression to the Property (Scale for my example)
If you did everything like I did, it will look like this!
![image](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/608773dbb747ca31e60529ba/60aefebf1617f2681cd9a28d_KSqwR6qIMRI6Szqg0SdHL2pYAFkpGJOItvLVqUfz26492.jpeg)
Now you can animate X & Y separately using the two slider values!
And you have easy control of the graph curves for X & Y instead of the mess you had before.
![image](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/608773dbb747ca31e60529ba/60aefec0b0f72f289f15170d_RGHwEhEuGOA3N76euKzru2KBT7gWVZk0FTIvH57u26492.gif)
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