From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 15 Creating a Sports Opening Title

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Starting a new composition

Starting a new composition

Now that Trish has shown you how to build pre-comps with our various components in it, I'm going to show you how to take these components and create some main compositions to build our final promo. I'm going to take a peek at what our goal is here. Our final composition is 10 seconds long, and it looks like I have a division here at the 4-second mark. So I am going to create two different main comps, one that covers the first four seconds of the final, and a second that covers the remaining six seconds of it. I'll close this comp for now, choose my Comps folder, and go to Composition > New Composition. If you like, you can also click on this Create a New Comp button down the bottom of the project panel. New Comp, I am going to choose the size of NTSC Widescreen Square Pixel, we can always render to an anamorphic pixel format later on. Even though I only need four seconds, I'm going to set a duration of five seconds just to make sure I have a little bit of extra handle, in case we…

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