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Building an extra-wide composition

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Building an extra-wide composition

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- [Narrator] Let's open up our first exercise file. I'll go to File, Open Project, and if you have the exercise files that came with this lesson, select AEA_Nesting_1-Grouping.aep. If instead you're working from a book After Effects Apprentice Second Edition, we're in Lesson Six, and you'll want to open up the project file 06_Nesting_1.aep. I'll click Open, and let's see where we're going with this. I'm going to open up Finished Movie, double click Human Main_final, which will open it in its Footage panel. If you're using After Effects CS4, hold Option on Mac or Alt on Windows and double click to get it in this panel, and I'll press 0 on the numeric keypad to run preview. What I have here is multiple copies of this image sequence of the Muybridge Man walking, all moving as a group across my screen. I could duplicate this clip multiple times and animate each one individually, but that's just asking for trouble, particularly if the client wants to change the speed later on, I want to…

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