Re: How can I manually replicate the Exponential Scale effect in standard?

You might want to try this exponential scale expression from an earlier Dan post. Copy the expression, then Alt Click the Scale Stopwatch of that Layer 1/SanFran.psd, then Paste.

I plugged in Andrew's 100% to .0005% over 6 seconds. This expression will override any keyframes, so you don't need any on that top layer. I don't have AE7, my bad, so I can't download Andrew's project file to test it, but it should be smooth.

Dan Ebberts earlier post, with your parameters:

Date: Apr 27, 2005 at 15:46 gmt

Subject: Re: is it possible to us expression for?
Try this:

v1 = 100;
v2 = .0005;
t1 = 0; //start time
t2 = 6; //end time

if (time <= t1){
s = v1;
}else if (time > t1 && time < t2){
t = time - t1;
T = t2 - t1;
k = Math.log(v2/v1)/T;
s = v1*Math.exp(k*t)
}else{
s = v2;
}
[s,s]