Motion 4: zooming in with all layers

I'm creating an opening sequence in Motion 4 and I can see a problem coming.
First the white circle draws itself. Then the center photo fades in. Then, one after another, the town names and dots appear in alphabetical order.
The final effect should be a zoom into the center dot, where I'll fade in from black a photo of video's topic, a library.
The dome photo is plenty big...what's on screen for most of the sequence is only about 20 percent of full size. But I can see that I'm going to need to enlarge everything, or have the Motion camera move in on everything, so the dome doesn't simply grow beyond the bounds of the white circle and town names. That's about 10 layers in all.
What would be the best way to do this? Thanks.

This istell excellent advice, absolutely killer.
David Bogie Chq-1 wrote:
Yes. but I might suggest you build this as a set of layers, each a bit closer to or further from the camera--maybe even mask the dome image so there are two copies, an inner and outer circle at different z-depths--and do the camera move as a push in to the dome image. The parallax shift as the camera moves might give you a very interesting effect.
bogiesan
Why your layers won't move into groups is a bit difficult to diagnose from where I'm sitting.
Cameras are what Motion is all about these days. However, just placing a camera in the scene is not going to magicaly make this move work for you. You will need to learn how to use cameras. But, if it's a simple move you've got in mind, the easiest place to start is the camera behaviors.
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