Creating compositions

 After Effects uses compositions to place and arrange your elements. Remember to consider design principles that help in creating a strong composition when you arrange your elements. In After Effects these compositions are referred to as comps. I am going to create a comp by hitting the new composition icon. If you look closely at the icon, you will see it looks like a composition symbol with shapes:

Fig. New composition

I'll leave all these settings as it is. Except make the comp size 1920 x 1080 and make the time duration—0;04;00;00. I'll name the comp Main:

Fig. Composition settings

I'll drag the main comp into the ...

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