Drop zone size

Why would one of the drop zones be smaller than the others? It looks like my photo has been cut off and scrunched on both sides. Only 1 of the 6 photos in the drop zone series is like this?

Selecting the part of a movie or image that appears in a drop zone
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Drop Zone video is cut off

I started using DVD Studio today with a template that has a drop Zone it appears to be cut off on the bottom third now. When I reposition the drop zone size I notice the cut off area changes in size. After two years of using this program... this is a first.

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It turns out that everyone with Final Cut Studio Pro 6 that allowed the latest update of Snow Leopard 10.6.5 to install (just a few weeks ago on Nov 10th) got their program corrupted. People with Final Cut Pro 7 already installed were safe.
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1. Make sure you turn off "auto updates". Reinstall Snow Leopard, you don't have to erase just use your disk.
2. Then update manually to 10.6.4 by following these steps and downloading the update here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1048?viewlocale=en_US
3. Now Reinstall Final Cut pro
BUT Here's the rub ....
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Themes; Photos in Drop Zones Not full size

Please help. I'm trying to drag photos to the bumper drop zones but they won't appear full size. I've used several bumpers in my iMovie project already and this is the first time it won't work. Can anyone help me fix this problem?
Angie

Update - I realized this phenomenon is only happening on my current project, not any new projects. I tried "save as" to see if that would correct that problem, but no luck. Any thoughts?

Re-size within a drop zone

Is there any way for me to re-size my video once it's been place into a drop zone? Shrink or otherwise?

In Motion 4, you'd be able to use the Link behavior to make a scale adjustable template... ala: Mark's tutorial (thanks Mark!)...
With Motion 3, I'd say edit the template. You have the option to save it just for this use, or globally. I'd say make your adjustments on a use by use basis...
Patrick

Drop Zones - Changing shapes and sizes

This may not be possible with DVD Studio Pro, but does anyone have an idea how to change the size and shape of a Drop Zone and distort them so they look like they are laying on the ground or have some scale.
Refer to a Star Wars DVD where the drop zone is on the deck of the death star, or shaped round, or against a building. Much like the distort tool in Final Cut Pro, but can you do it in DVD studio Pro?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

sorry typo, assets
You can use Photoshop, Final Cut, Motion, After Effects or other program you like using, you mentioned the distort tool in Final Cut, and there are similar tools in the other programs.
What you would do is compositie the menu in Motion or AE or FCP (if you want movement) and make the drop zones part of that (or in Photoshop) The drop zones can also just be manipulated by going into DVD SP --> Package--Resources and you can see the actual files, copy and distort the copy to use. Makke sure to use a copy

Adjusting frame size for drop zones

I posted this question in the Final Cut Forum, but I thought this might be a good place to ask as well.
I exported a wide screen movie out of fce and plopped it on a drop zone on the main theme page in iDVD. The movie has that black band at the top like like it would if it was being played as a wide screen movie on your tv. It there a setting I can adjust to make that movie completely that drop zone?
Thank you,
Scott

I wish I had good news for you but I do not. I've been working for the last hour trying to find a solution for you and I cannot within iDvd alone. This particular theme is highly limited on my own system as well.
I'm wondering if there might be a way to resize the movie in QT Pro but it will take me considerably more time to find this type of solution for a movie as opposed to a still image.
I won't have a solution for you today but I will keep this in mind.

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

Resize photo in Drop Zone

I have just completed my first non-PC DVD creation!!! I have run into a problem that I can't figure out, I have checked the discussion groups and I don;t believe anyone other than me has run into this: I grabbed some photos (3) from my iPhoto collection, dropped them into the "Drop Zone editor", and they are displayed on my menu, very nice, etc. However the photo is displayed so large that all you can see is my child's left eye and left forehead (for example). How can you re-adjust the photos that iDVD uses (either before pulling into iDVD or once in iDVD) so that that they are vaguely right size? I have tried left- and right-clicking eveywhere, no luck. I have tried taking one of the photos, amking a copy form iPhoto onto my desktop, resizing it down to 3 by 2 inches, adn then trying to use that "shrunk" photo - no change! Any ideas anyone..........

I used Photoshop to try different sizes until I could fit our logo just the way I wanted. The final image size that seems to work fine is 693w x 520h in pixels. Your image can be 693w but not all 520h will make it on. I had to position our logo which is roughly 260h about 1/3 of the way down from the top as the bottom part gets cut off. You need the extra white space on the bottom but not width wise.

Difficulty positioning drop zone images

I have carefully and repeatedly read the sizing and positioning instructions for images in iDVD drop zones. I am just not "getting it". There must be more info. somewhere about putting predictability into this process. The photo does not appear in the desired size and position.

My apologies to the person I got this from—cannot find it now. But, OT, here's what works great:
1) Open a new Appleworks (or Word) word processing document. I know this is unsophisticated, but this standard 8 1/2 x 11" document seems to be the key to the process.
2) Set the document margins to very thin. like 1/10".
3) Place (paste) your photo into the document.
4) The portion of the picture that you want to show in the drop zone—place it at the top of the document and slightly to the right.
5) Use the "create pdf" function within the print dialog box to create a pdf document.
6) Drag the resulting pdf document into the drop zone well.
7) Look at the results. In the original word processing document, adjust the photo size and position as desired. Then, make another pdf.
8) Drag your adjusted pdf into the drop zone well.
As I said before, this worked great for me after spending a whole day trying to find a solution. I feel liberated. Thanks to the original author, whomever it may be.

Drop Zone Photo Quality

I created a DVD and added images to the Drop Zones. When completed I burned the DVD. The images in the Drop Zones are grainy with horizontal lines.
The preview before the burn looked fine, really crisp and clear.
Note:
I did use the computer for other things while burning. Do you think that caused the image quality to drop? Should I not do anything while buring the DVD?
Thanks,
Craig
iMac 20" 2GHz Intel CoreDuo Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GB Ram

I created a DVD and added images to the Drop Zones.
When completed I burned the DVD. The images in the
Drop Zones are grainy with horizontal lines.
The preview before the burn looked fine, really crisp
and clear.
I did use the computer for other things while
burning. Do you think that caused the image quality
to drop?
I doubt that is the source of your image quality problems. What was the size (in pixels) of the images you used?
Should I not do anything while buring the
DVD?
Back in the old days (a couple of years ago) with slower processors, doing two things at one could be a problem. With the faster (and dual) processors we have now, using your computer for something else during the encoding/multiplexing process might lengthen the process but shouldn't cause problems. Make your initial 'burn' to a disk image on your hard drive and then use Apple's Disk Utility or Roxuo's Toast Titanium to burn the image file to writable media. I try to avoid using my computer during the actual burning process to avoid any burner buffer-underruns because of hard drive access issues.

Photo too large for drop zone

Often when I drag a photo into the drop zone of a main menu, the photo goes in but is displayed so large that much of the subject is cropped out. Anyone have a way of shrinking the photo down so that the entire photo can be seen in the menu?

I have found that size of the photo is rarely a problem. The problem is simply getting that portion of the photo you are interested in to show. The drop zone photo areas are small, therefore, you generally are placing photos of people that were taken from distances of 5 to 10 feet. The faces are the key to being satisfied with the photo in the drop zone ( or the car, or the motorcylcle, etc.) FORTUNATELY, you can drop the photo in the zone, and then place your cursor on the photo and move it around so that exactly the area of the photo you are concerned with will show! By moving my photos ( in effect a cropping occurs without the loss of any part of the photo. It would be like looking at a 4X6" photo and placing a 1X3" frame on it. Move the frame around to get what you want and VOILA! Hope this enables you to accomplish your drop zone objective.

Upgrade to Final Cut 10.0.7 destroyed my generators created in Motion that include drop zones. Anyone experienced the same problem ?

In Motion 5 I created generators that included a drop zone. The objective it to bring them into Final Cut and insert into the drop zone a clip of the same duration.
In FCX 10.0.6 I used to bring a clip to the time line and re size it to the exact duration of my generator. Then I bring the generator to the time line and selected the generator, click in the drop zone of the published parameters menu and select this clip I wanted to insert. The result was the generator using my clip and the clip playing during all the duration of the generator with the generator effect.
Now, with 10.0.7 I can’t make that work. When I click in the clip I would like to import into the drop zone, the result is that there’s just a frozen image of the clip (in the same place I clicked with the mouse)
Is this a known problem of 10.0.7. It used to work well in 10.0.6
Thanks for your help !

I can't see that the update would have any effect on custom generators as they are housed separately from FCP X.
Many weird things happen as a result of corrupt preferences which can create a vast range of different symptoms, so whenever FCP X stops working properly in any way, trashing the preferences should be the first thing you do using this free app.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Shut down FCP X, open PreferenceManager and in the window that appears:-
1. Ensure that only FCP X is selected.
2. Click Trash
The job is done instantly and you can re-open FCP X.
There is absolutely no danger in trashing preferences and you can do it as often as you like.
The preferences are kept separately from FCP X and if there aren't any when FCP X opens it automatically creates new ones . . . instantly.

Motion drop zones not behaving

I have drop zones on a canvas x 4.
I have made this "Fit" setting.
The drop zones are not all the size of the footage for example one of them is really tall but thin.
When I place it in the fcp timeline the drop zones shrink to accomadate the footage.
Shouldnt the footage fill the drop zone wih the edges of the footage that don't fit being cut out?
I have tried "stretch" as a drop zone setiing and it distorts the aspect ratio of the footage. Centre looks no good either.
Can anyone help?

"Fit" means that the footage will be shrunk so that it completely fits inside the dropzone. This means that if the aspect ratio does not match, it will basically either letterbox or pillar box the footage.

Resizing photos for drop zones

When I drop a photo into a drop zone in iDVD '08 it stays huge and only a small part of the photo can be seen. I have resized to 768x576 as the HELP suggested but it made no difference. No matter how small I made the photo, it got blown up to a large size. I know you can move the photo a little using the command button and the mouse, but unfortunately that doesn't help much when the image is so big.
Any ideas? I'm just about ready to pull the last couple of hairs out of my head! This has never been a problem in iDVD '06
Many thanks

Changing the dpi won't help - iDVD and iMovie don't care about it. The theme displays the entire image from top to bottom (more or less), but since the window is portrait mode on a landscape image, you loose about 1/4 of the image on each side. There doesn't seem to be much you can do with it (other than not use it).
What I would do is create a 640 x480 image with a 120 pixel wide black band on either side and insert a 400 pixel wide by 480 pixel high image in the middle between the black bands. The theme should show you just about all of the image you have inserted when you place the 640x480 image in the drop zone window. I wish there were an easier way, but I've had to use such trial and error methods since I started working with iDVD back in iDVD 2 days.
F Shippey

Dropping Video into a drop zone...

Is it possible to put video in a drop zone without losing any qaultiy? I have video clips that I insert into drop zones that are over 1GB, but once inserted, the file size of my project only says 256MB. I would like that video clip to be uncompressed for best quality.

If your working in DVD SP, all video assets are converted to Mpeg2, if not before bringing it into DVD SP, then during the build by compressor 2.
If your exporting out of FCP, using QT conversion, STOP! You should be using "QuickTime Movie" as your export, (first option in FCP 5 export.) You should also, to save time, uncheck the self contained movie option, this creates a reference movie that compressor can use and take a fraction of the time to export.
Using QuickTime conversion just adds a whole new layer of compression to your video, using the QT Movie export doesn't and references the source footage, (no loss of video quality. This file is then used by Compressor 2 to create the Mpeg 2 file for DVD SP.
PS: don't remove any of the FCP render or source files, till Compressor is finished creating the Mpeg 2 file. The Mpeg2 file that is created, doesn't need any of the source footage to work in DVD SP, (like the FCP footage and reference movie does.)
Using Compressor as a stand alone App, gives you far better control over the quality of the video asset, than letting DVD SP automatically use Compressor during the build, plus it save time during the build, due to the fact that all assets are already in Mpeg2 format.

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