After Effects duration one frame?

I imported a PSD to After Effects as a composition recently, but it gave the composition a duration of one frame. Now I can stretch it, but not actually change the duration. I can only stretch it to a maximum of like 6 seconds because that gives it a 9900% stretch factor. How can I actually change the duration?

Actually, I imported it as a composition. I guess that's not the issue. But I did still have the sequence box checked. Would that be the issue alone?

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