Adding Drop Zones to Themes

Playing around with iMovie 6 and so far, so good. However, in working with the themes I haven't found a way to add drop zones to the Drop Zone pane. Does anyone know how to do it or if it's possible?

A trick I have used to compensate for the limited number of themes instead of using transitions is to create the same theme and reverse the direction. The last picture on theme #1 is also the first picture on theme #2. Then I change the other pictures on theme # 2 to whatever I want.
The theme zooms on a picture, pause there for a second and then zooms back out and continues.
Yes I know on theme #2 the pages get turned in reverse, but I guarentee, most people are so amazed, they don't even notice.
I am sure there will be third party themes in the future.

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Message was edited by: Ken Hainsworth

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Everytime
I try to add photos to my menu designs, the drop zones crop them oddly. I often have to go into photoshop and make several versions by trial and error until one works after the cropping. This is obvisouly very time consuming. Is there any way to move the asset position in the drop zone??

Yeah, i often do that. the problemis more when it crops the left hand side of te image as opposed to the right, and I cannot reposition it. doesn't that seem like a pretty core ability you should be able to do?

Adding pictures to a theme, but not in the drop zones...

I don't know if this is a really noob ou really tricky question, but here it goes : )
I'd like to add a/some picture(s) to a iDVD theme, but not in the drop zones. I'd like my pictures to appear as layers, choose whoch one goes in front, and so on...
Is there any way to do that?
Thx, and happy new year ; )
iMac 24' 2,16GHz CodeDuo2 GeForce 7300 GT 1Gh DDR Mac OS X (10.4.8)

In that case you would need to prepare the background as a QT movie exactly the way you want to display it as a background movie and then drag and drop that prepared QT file to iDVD.
I've never done this type of movie in iLife apps alone but I have with FCP & DVD SP which offers these additional video editing options for sizing pip and frames in an existing movie / menu.
Also check the help Menu for iDVD6 (and iMovie) if you haven't already. I did a search for you and here's what I came up with:
Changing the background image of a DVD menu
You can replace the background image in a menu with your own image. Images in menu backgrounds are cropped to fit the standard DVD window size, but the aspect ratio of the original image is preserved. If you want your image to fit the DVD window exactly, first use an image-editing application to resize the image to 640 x 480 for standard video and 854 x 480 for widescreen.
When you replace a background image, you can also choose to keep the drop zones or remove them completely.
Here are ways to change the background image:
Drag a picture file from the Finder or the Media pane to a DVD menu background, outside a drop zone. Before you drop the picture, press the Command key and choose "Replace background" or "Replace background and drop zones" from the contextual menu that appears (shown above). Then release the mouse button.
Click the Menu button and drag a picture file from the Finder to the background well in the Menu pane. If your theme has drop zones, the drop zones disappear.
Click the Media button, then click Photos. Drag a photo from your iPhoto library or another folder to your DVD menu. If your theme has drop zones, the drop zones are retained.
Choose File > Import > Image, locate and select an image, and click Import. If your theme has drop zones, the drop zones are retained.
To remove a background image and return to the default image for the theme, click the Menu button and drag the image out of the background well (shown above).
Hope this answers your question/s.
SDMacuser

I'm trying to burn a dvd from idvd but I keep getting error message, broken assets, but when I check my drop zones and their content there's no error messages on any of them?

I'm trying to burn a dvd from idvd but I keep getting error message, broken assets, but when I check my drop zones and their content there's no error messages on any of them?

Hi
And if You change view - in main "window/view field" so that You see the box-plot structure.
No exclamation marks there either ?
and non at the front page ?
iDVD do not copy Your material - only points to where it is stored. So if on any external hard disks, USB-memories, CDs or DVDs are missing - assetts are broken.
Or if You changed location of any material or directed iPhoto or iTunes or GarageBand to a new Library - Then iMovie/iDVD also get's lost.
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Editing a picture to fit into theme drop zone

I have cropped a picture in iphoto to remove a damaged portion and to reposition the important part of the picture to show in the Memories theme in idvd but the original photo keeps appearing.
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Can I move a picture in the drop zone in a theme like Memories that is horizontal to better show the important part of the picture rather than the midpoint?
Why does my original photo and not the cropped photo appear in the drop zone even when the picture I see shows the cropped picture?

This is where DVDSP out performs iDvd. There is much more latitude (literally) within apple's pro apps for exactly this type of work. It is possible within iDvd also (to a marginal extent). But there's only so much i-apps will offer when compared to apple's pro apps. Hence the need for a graphics editing app (ie, PhotoShop).
It actually becomes a bit frustrating without the additional features / tools to do the work that's needed to customize your iDvd in this respect. It's almost as if one is at the mercy of the software along with it's built in limitations. It is a shortfall IMO, even though it is intended as a consumer app.

Can't import jpegs into drop zones in 7.0 themes

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Roger,
What happens if you click on the Drop Zone button and drag the image there?
This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
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Does this help?
From the iDvd Help Menu:
Repositioning an image or movie in a drop zone
When you drag a picture or movie into a drop zone, the aspect ratio of the image is preserved, but it is scaled larger or smaller to fill the drop zone. As a result, sometimes part of the image is cut off and does not appear in the drop zone. In this case, you can move the image to choose which portion is visible in the drop zone.
To reposition an image or movie in a drop zone:
1.) From the drop zone on the menu (not in the drop zone editor), click the image or movie and press Command.
2.) Drag the image until the part you want is visible in the drop zone.
Keep these things in mind as you position an image:
If you drag a narrow image to a drop zone, the image is scaled vertically, and you can move the image up or down only.
If you drag a wide image to a drop zone, the image is scaled horizontally, and you can move the image side to side only.
If you accidentally drag the image too far, you will remove it from the drop zone. (The cursor changes from a hand to a puff of smoke.) Choose Edit > Undo to restore the image to the drop zone.
Repositioning a movie in a drop zone is different from selecting which part of a movie shows in a drop zone (which allows you to select which frame of the movie is displayed in a drop zone). For more information, see Related Topics below.

PROJECTOR Theme no longer has Drop Zone?

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I used this earlier in the year to burn a DVD with the PROJECTOR theme (old theme) and there was a Drop Zone on the main menu to put a pic in the Movie Screen.
I pulled out the old DVD I made and there it is.
Now when I try to use the PROJECTOR theme on a new Project, I don't get a Drop Zone for the Movie Screen (?)
What happened?
All the other Themes still have their Drop Zones.

Are you sure?
Have you tried double clicking on the screen in the theme? That should bring up both visual and audio drop zones.
If that fails, try deleting iDVD's preference file (close iDVD first):
Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.idvd.plist
then open iDVD again. Does it work now?

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Oh My! I love this program and have spent all day on it. How do I add more than just 6 pictures to the watercolor theme? If I put numerous photo's in one drop zone, it only displays one of the photo's? Frustrated!!!! Observe

Two ways to do this is to make up a series of short slideshows in iPhoto or FotoMagico and drop it into each drop zone. Or you can even use YOUR slideshow in each drop zone by just selecting the autofill button on your menu. You can adjust each "movie" to play from different points and also change the "loop" time for your theme so that it only plays for 30 seconds or so (time it to suit the music).

MOTION 3 - adding photos to template drop zones.

Is there a tutorial on adding photos to the drop zones? New to Motion.
Do I import the photos first? Thanks.

There is a tutorial on dropzones on my You Tube channel. Here's a link:
[Drop Zone Tutorial|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx4wn82jVLw]
Andy
PS: I may receive compensation for my recommendation or link.

No Drop Zones in iMovie Themes?

Hi,
My mother has been working with iMovie HD recently, as she recently got an eMac from her school district. However, there seems to be something wrong with her installation. When she goes into the Themes menu and selects one to add photos to, the drop zone dialogue which would usually contain little numbered boxes is empty. There is no way to add photos into the boxes. The grey areas which usually signify a box are colored white as well.
The problem wasn't occurring just hours before. I'd really appreciate some help on this one. Is it a fixable problem? Or should I try reinstalling ilife? (and if thats the case how can I do a clean un-install / reinstall of the ilife suite?)
Thanks so much!

Welcome to discussions, Jake:
Try deleting the imovie preference file.
Close Imovie.
Then locate a file named com.apple.imovie.plist and get rid of it. Then empty the trash, run a permissions repair with disk utility and restart. That should do it. The files you need to delete are found in:
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist
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Adding Pictures/Video to Drop Zones

Hello All,
I've created a drop zone in motion and saved it as a master template. However when I bring it into FCP I have no idea how to place my footage into the drop zone. Whenever I drag something into the canvas it just overwrites the template.
Also, can images/footage be resized and animated within a drop zone?
Thanks!
rT

Thanks Jerry, I can't believe I missed that.
It seems though I can only animate the drop zone as a whole and not the picture/ video inside the drop zone. Is there a way to do that. For example I may want a picture inside the drop zone to scale up a bit. However the scale parameters on the motion tab only control the drop zone as a whole - not what is within it. Is threre any way to resolve this?
Thanks.

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