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, let’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.