Creating a new composition. Following the After Effects workflow you learned in Lesson 1, the next step to building the travel show ID is to create a new composition

Following the After Effects workflow you learned in Lesson 1, the next step to building the travel show ID is to create a new composition. In Lesson 1, you created the composition based on footage items that were selected in the Project panel. You can also create an empty composition, and then add your footage items to it.

1 Create a new composition by doing one of the following:

􀁴 Click the Create A New Composition button () at the bottom of the Project panel.

􀁴 Choose Composition > New Composition.

􀁴 Press Ctrl+N (Windows) or Command+N (Mac OS).

2 In the Composition Settings dialog box, do the following:

􀁴 Name the composition Destinations.

􀁴 Choose NTSC D1 from the Preset pop-up menu. NTSC D1 is the resolution for standard-definition television in the United States and some other countries. This preset automatically sets the width, height, pixel aspect ratio, and frame rate for the composition to NTSC standards.

􀁴 In the Duration field, type 300 to specify 3 seconds.

􀁴 Click OK.

After Effects displays an empty composition named Destinations in the Composition panel and in the Timeline panel. Now, you’ll add the background.

3 Drag the parthenon.jpg footage item from the Project panel to the Timeline panel to add it to the Destinations composition.

4 With the parthenon layer selected in the Timeline panel, choose Layer > Transform > Fit To Comp to scale the background image to the dimensions of the composition.

_ Tip: The keyboard shortcut for fitting a layer to a composition is Ctrl+Alt+F (Windows) or Command+Option+F (Mac OS).

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