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• The composition name or icon in the Project window.
You can also add a footage item to a composition by selecting the name of the footage item
in the Project window and pressing Ctrl+/ (Windows) or Command+/ (Mac OS).
To add several footage items to a composition at the same time:
1 Do any of the following:
• Select multiple footage items. To select a contiguous range of items, press Shift as you
click the footage items in the Project window. To select a discontiguous set of items, press
Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) as you select the footage item names.
• Move multiple footage items into a folder in the Project window. For information on
creating folders, see “Working with the Project window” on page 51.
2 Drag the names of the footage items or the folder from the Project window onto a
composition name in the Project window, into the Composition window, or into the
Timeline window. The items appear in the order in which they were selected in the Project
window.
Nesting a composition
When creating an elaborate composition, you may find it easier to organize the layers that
make up the composition by using a technique called nesting—putting one or more
compositions into another composition. You can create many levels of nesting. For further
information, see “Organizing a project using nesting” on page 342.
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