Can you customize drop zones in Motion?

Im trying to help a client who spends an extra day on his "template" adding picture to it but then resizing and cropping when the photo's are portrait as a apposed to landscape. I'm not really sure why this takes him so long, I think he has Motion 3 so maybe someone could tell me if this is much different with drop zones? But i was looking for a way to speed up the process? Let me know? Thanks!

Drop Zones will not distort an image, but only show what will fit.  If you have a perfectly square Drop Zone, and put an anamorphic clip in it, you'll cut off the left and right edges.  You can always take your Motion template in FCP and Send To Motion to change the size/shape of a Drop Zone.  It's pretty easy, can be done pretty quickly.

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