Specifications

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Once the single “Piston Loop” composition works as desired, go ahead and
create the next, outer composition, naming it “Four Cylinders”. Add four
copies of the “Piston Loop” to this composition by dragging them from the
Media Window into the “Four Cylinders” timeline window.
Since the “Piston Loop” contains a single engine revolution only, you need to
set each of the “Piston Loop” cues on the “Four Cylinders” timeline to loop. This
behavior is selected in the Composition Cue specifications dialog box, shown
by double-clicking the cues.
Drag out the tail end of all four cues to about one minute to give enough
running time to play with at the next level.
Add four instances of the “Piston
Loop” composition. Scale down all
but the frontmost instance by incre-
ments of 10% each, and offset their
positions as shown.
Stage window preview of the
resulting “Four Cylinders”
composition.