So, move your Current Time Indicator down to 2 seconds in the Timeline, and you know itвЂ™s two seconds because the upper left corner of the Timeline, it says 0 00 02 00. So, right now as I am dragging, I am going through a process called scrubbing. And if you come to the top of that blue line, you can click and drag and that will allow you to reposition the Current Time Indicator. The thing you want to pay attention to as you are moving layers around in time is the location of the Current Time Indicator, which is this blue line here on the left side. Make sure Layer 1 is selected, and then go to the right side of the Timeline. With the logo in the Timeline, letвЂ™s change when the logo appears over time. LetвЂ™s place it above Layer 1 in the Timeline. Notice as we get over the Summer_Forest.mp4 layer, if I go over top or below, I get a blue highlight showing me exactly where I am going to place this element. Come back up to the Project panel, click on the APEAK_Logo.ai file and drag it down to the Timeline. LetвЂ™s add our logo into the Timeline as well. Notice now the Composition has been created, and the video file has been added into the Timeline. To create a composition from this footage, I will just click on the footage and drag it down to the Composition button and then let go. So, if you click once on the video footage in the Project panel, notice we can see itвЂ™s already 1920 x 1080,0 00 10 29.97 fps. I want to create a composition that will match my video footage exactly. I am going to click to Cancel because I donвЂ™t want to use any of these settings to create a new composition. You can also set the Background Color in the bottom of your Composition Settings. We have 0 hours, 00 minutes, 10 seconds and 00 frames based on a 30 frames per second Frame Rate. I have several numbers here, and they work from left to right. You can also set your Frame Rate, how many frames are going to play back at every second, and you can set the Duration of the project. Go ahead and choose the preset or just click out of the menu. Then you want to go ahead and click on the Preset pull-down, and in here you can choose whatever resolution and framerate you would like to work at. At the top, you can name the composition under the Composition Name. The first way is to go to the Composition menu in the Menu bar and chose New Composition.In here, you want to make sure you are in the Basic settings. There are two primary ways you can create compositions in After Effects. To show you what I mean, letвЂ™s get started building our first composition. Layers can be created from many different kinds of files. A composition is a container where you can layer multiple files together to create a file known as a composite. To get started creating your first project in After Effects, you will need to build your graphic in a composition.

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