Changing horizontal drop zone to vertical

I'm using Motion 5.1 to work with still photos. I have a FCP X template that uses horizontal drop zones that I want to format for vertical pictures. How can I do this without having to create a new drop zone? Is there a way to change the parameters of the horizontal drop zone without having any blank space or cutting off images?

kricketts10 wrote:
... . I have a FCP X template that uses horizontal drop zones that I want to format for vertical pictures. How can I do this without having to create a new drop zone? Is there a way to change the parameters of the horizontal drop zone ..
You can rotate (and resize) any drop-zone in Motion like a 'clip' .... select the drop-zone, and in the Info-tab you can change parameters...
... in case, you can open the template in M5, and it's no commercial one with some 'hidden' parameters.

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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.
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