Help With Animating Over an AVI File!

I have imported a 30 second avi clip into Flash and I am
trying to create an animation over it. I've gathered that I need to
create a new layer for the animation and I have drawn the object to
animate but now when I press play, the timeline moves but the movie
does not play so I don't know where to animate to. If anyone can
offer any help it would be very much appreciated.

First, you need to learn the basics of using After Effects. Start here to learn After Effects.
Then you'll be able to ask specific questions as you run into specific problems with what you're trying to accomplish.
There are instructions here and in the pages that it points to related to importing and using elements from PSD files.

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