Creating the composition Now, you’ll create the composition. 1 Press Ctrl+N (Windows) or Command+N (Mac OS) to open the Composition Settings dialog box. 2 In the Composition Settings dialog box, name the composition Pond_Title_ Sequence, select NTSC DV from the Preset menu, and set the Duration to 10:00, which is the length of the pond background movie. Then, click OK.
3 Drag the pondbackground.mov and Lotus.swf footage items from the Project panel to the Timeline panel. Arrange the layers so that Lotus.swf is above pondbackground.mov in the layer stack.
Now, position and scale the Lotus.swf layer in the composition. 4 With the Lotus layer selected in the Timeline panel, press the S key to reveal its Scale property.
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