Drop Zone with Audio

Is it possible to create a video Drop Zone for a template in FCP that plays with audio. I am doing a 16_9 Background with 4_3 Drop Zone, but when I use it in FCP and drop the video it plays without audio. Am I missing some preference or is it just not possible to create this?
Thanks

That's a real shame: having to edit the audio separately beat the convenience of the drop zones in templates.
Thanks Andy.
Enrique

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Does anyone know if you can control the display of a drop zone with the state of a button. I am working on an exercise video and would like change an image based on the selected state of three different buttons.

Use auto actions on your buttons to jump to new (almost identical) menus with different drop zone video. Auto action can be set in the Button Property Inspector/Advanced Tab. Auto-action will automatically goto the jump target (another menu) upon selection of the button. Don't set an auto-action on the button the jumps to your desired target track.
eg. - Create 3 menus A, B and C.
"Menu A" should have: 1) "Button A" as the default selected button and a jump target to whatever track you want, 2) "Button B" should have auto-action that jumps to "Menu B" and 3) "Button C" should have auto-action that jumps to "Menu C".
"Menu B" should have: 1) "Button B" as the default selected button, and a jump target to whatever track you want, 2) "Button A" should have auto-action that jumps to "Menu A" and 3) "Button C" should have auto-action that jumps to "Menu C".
"Menu C" should have: 1) "Button C" as the default selected button, and a jump target to whatever track you want, 2) "Button A" should have auto-action that jumps to "Menu A" and 3) "Button B" should have auto-action that jumps to "Menu B".
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Resizing clips in drop zones with motion 5.04

Can someone please help me resize clips in the dropzones. When I drag the clip into the dropzone it show as too high up causing the head of my subject to be cut off as an example. I do not see anywhere that shows a "fit" option in the inspector or anywhere else. I purchase templates with dropzones in place. Also when I try to resiize the handles that are showing, the complete drop zones resizes.
Is there some parameters I am supposed to using with the clip itself?

The "Adjust Item" tool is contextual, and will only help you move the image around inside of a Drop Zone.
If you need to "resize" the content of a Drop Zone, use the Scale parameter in the Inspector's "Image" section.
I happen to be doing this at the moment myself.

Video in drop zone breaking menu transition...

this seemed simple.
i have a drop zone on my main menu with a quicktime in it. no interactivity. also on the main menu is a text button. that button triggers a custom transition/wipe that i built in motion. eveything worked fine, until i placed the drop zone with the quicktime: what happens is that when the menu button is selected, the drop zone clip jumps to a different point, then applies the transition and goes to the track. but that's not all. when going back to the menu, the drop zone clip will go to somewhere in the middle of that clip, then go to the head...
the menu length is set to the length of the qt in the drop zone.
if i delete the drop zone, the trans works fine.
any ideas?

Hi:
The transition in your final disc will be a MPEG-2 video file, it will not be created on the fly while playing. That means that DVDSP will use a frame from your menu as starting point to create the transition "to the movie" video file and another one to create the "from the movie" transition. The same happens when you use a movie as background in your menu.
I don't know what rule uses DVDSP to select what frame to choose to build the transition, but you cannot expect that your transition will start in the frame that you are seeing in any moment. Do you know what I mean?
Alberto

Drop Zone Resize

I'm using one of the templates in Motion and when I drop in a photo into the drop zone I'd like to resize the dropped in pic. Can't figure out how to do this.
Can it be done?

Dan,
With your drop zone highlighted in the LAYERS tab, go to your Inspector window, click the image tab. you will see your "drop zone" checked. just beneath it is a parameter called "fit". it has 3 choices: fit, center and stretch. I think FIT: fits the image in the drop zone with the correct aspect ratio, CENTER: centers the image at it's original size, in the center of the drop zone, and STRETCH: stretches the image to fill the drop zone.
chose the one that fits your need. you can also make adjustments to the image in the properties tab after you have placed the image in the drop zone. hope this helps
steve

Resizing drop zone photo?

I have read through this forum and don't see any answers for this question for new versions of iDVD. I am using 7.1.2
I have dropped a photo into one of the drop zones for a template, but the photo is zoomed way in. I found if I hold the command button down I can move the photo around, how do I get it the size I would like? Do I need to edit in iphoto or Photoshop before importing to the drop zone?
Always the small things that become so frustating.
Thanks!

You can't do what you want. The drop zone is designed to give the viewer just a hint or flavor of what the DVD holds in store for them.
You might try creating a larger blank, black image and put your photo in the center and use that. It might put the photo in the right part of the drop zone with more of it visible. I've not tried it so this is just a guess.
OT

Drop Zone Issue

Since updating to FCPX 10.0.6, Both Titles, Transistions and Gernerators that came with final cut and one's I have made myself do not allow me fill a Drop Zone with video. It fill's the drop zone with a Still from the last frame of the video clip I inserted, instead of playing the whole video clip. It worked prior to the upgrade and is something I use on a regular basis. Any Ideas? I've also tried on HD and SD Projects, I'm running the news update of Mountain Lion, and I have 16 iMacs with the same issue.

Drop Zones have been improved in 10.0.6, so I'm sorry you are having difficulties. Motion Titles and Generators (and I'm sure Transitions) with drop zones now behave as expected -- i.e.: dragging out the effect clip will no longer change the playback speed/retiming of the drop zone media, nor will it be limited to the original length of the effect as it was before; which means, you can drop a clip and resize the template to accomodate the playing length of the clip without sacrificing the timing or a predefined "out point".
There is a recommendation for "best practices" for upgrading to 10.0.6 (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5550?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US). I think it was incomplete (at least it was in my case) because of the preferences issues that came about. You can try to delete preferences, but I ended up doing a complete "fresh" install. I followed these instructions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5149 to remove any and all possible problem files.
*My* issue was mainly that none of the text boxes I published from Motion would appear in FCPX. There was also another "presumed" issue which turned out not to be one: Anamorphic Override (apparently ONLY appears for SD media and not for 1440x1080 media... maybe next release...)
So, try deleting preferences first (http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/) and if worse comes to worse (and I hope for your sake it doesn't come to this!): do a fresh install... that should clean up any issues you might be having.
HTH

Drop zone and layered menus

Hi,
I have a lovely layered menu made in Photoshop and all works well, but I would like to add a drop zone to it so I can have some of the movie show while the menu is up. I can't get this to work.
I cut out a hole in my psd file and put the movie behind it so it would show through, I then added a layered menu over the top and that works fine except this makes two menus and you can't be in two menus at the same time.
Does anyone have any idea of how to do this?
Best wishes
Michael

Sorry to break this one to you after all your work, but you can't combine video with layered menus - at least, not the way that DVDSP creates a menu from a layered photoshop file.
You can get very close to it though, using a series of menus and sub-menus which you create yourself as standard overlays... this is pretty much how DVDSP will deal with your layered photoshop file anyway. You'll need to create a different menu for each different button state and place the video into each as you want it to appear. However, when you move from menu to menu that video will not be continuous and will start from the first frame each time.
The other thing is why have you used a layered menu in the first place? What is on there that means you have to use layers? Can it be done using standard overlays? If it can, then you will be able to easily add your drop-zone with video to the menu... You might also consider using a layered menu and masking off different areas to simulate the way a layer based menu can reveal different text or images - you can also reveal pieces of video as well - check out the article here:
http://www.editorsbin.com/apple/dvdsp/tutorials/mask_overlay/index.html
There are some limitations with this method, explained throughout the article, but if you can live with these then this might be the better option for you.

Possible To Delay Drop Zone 1 & 2 To Coordinate With Audio?

The audio and the video on my menu isn't timed the way I want, I want a slight delay in my first two drop zones so that it comes in with the best part of the song. How do I go about delaying those two drop zones in order to do that? Thanks a lot!

You can often mess with the songs.....if you drill down into iDVD and then again into the theme....
See this:
John Beatty1, "audio level control in menu screen" #2, 09:30pm Sep 8, 2005 CDT
and instead of changing the volume, you might be able to time-shift the song.....but it would have to start at new start point.
John B.

I've encountered problems with drop zones in generators from Motion 5 toFCP X 10.0.7.

The clips won't import properly and come up as stills rather than videos. In one of my generators (with three drop zones) only one will display the clip - the other two play as stills (frozen?). I've tried having the playhead parked at the start of the clip when adding them to the generator, but it produces the same results.
Any solutions?

I've had this too and the fix then was to delete my project render files (FCP that is).
Russ

Intermittent Audio Drop-offs with Airtunes to Apple TV

A number of other threads have similar problems. iMac 2.8 GHz iTunes 8.1 is connect to an updated ATV via new dual-channel ABS on the "n" band. Still there are audio drop offs with AirTunes as it did with the previous ABS Extreme n and previous version of iTunes. So much so, I just gave up and used the Apple Remote on the iPhone to play ATV. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Switching from WEP to WPA/WPA2 personal seems to have totally cured the dropouts for me.
Also I used an old flying saucer Airport as the receiver via ethernet out for my entreatment center instead of using the AppleTV's wireless.
Also I had a Panasonic security cam that didn't support WPA so I used another flying saucer Airport via ethernet out as its receiver.
So now my setup is,
Airport Extreme in my home office as my main base station with a Motorola ADSL 2200 router feeding it internet.
Flying saucer Airport via ethernet and a hub feeding my AppleTV, DirecTV DVR, and a Mac mini.
Another flying saucer Airport via ethernet feeding my Panasonic security cam.
Airport Express for my bedroom speakers.
All airports are in bridge mode with the Motorola 2200 DSL modem acting as my router. (this seems to be the only way my Vonage adapter recovers without having to be reset if my DSL goes down)
I steam music from my 17" Macbook Pro to the AppleTV and Bedroom speakers all day now without any dropouts.

Quality Issues with Drop Zones - Newbie ALERT!

Hello!
First post for me here...
Just started working with Final Cut Studio 5.1 and I have some issues that I have been running into. In DVD Studio, I am grabbing a menu template (Panes Blue) and I am creating a simple text animation in Motion (720x480) NTSC and saving the Motion file then importing the Motion file into DVD studio and setting up the drop zone asset to my motion file. When I preview, the text quality is very poor! At first I thought it was just the preview, but it still looks horrible on the TV when I burn.
How do I get the best quality when creating an animation in Motion that I would like to use in a DVD studio Drop Zone?
Please let me know if you need further info!
Jason

here's the issue:
DVDSP doesn't encode progressive scan. it doesn't matter what your encode settings are. I've done extensive testing on this issue. here's what happens:
I made an element that fits perfectly into a specified drop zone. the menu Background image or movie is rendered progressive scan (not interlaced). I drop the element into the drop zone and hit Simulate. Since the Drop zone and it's element need to be encoded to Mpeg2 in order to play properly, DVDSP interlaces it to make it work. Result: bad image compression and the drop zone area is badly interlaced while the rest of the image isn't.
This was something that frustrated me for weeks while i was trying to find a solution. As far as I know there is only one solution; Since DVDSP uses Compressor to encode files on build, there must be a way of intercepting the process and changing the settings that DVDSP uses to encode it's files. There is no preference for this and since the encoding takes place in the background, there is no way of changing this without getting a programmer to figure out how to do it, and even then, i don't know if it's possible. If someone can figure out how do do this, there'll be a lot of Happy people wanting it.

Drop Zones shows correct image but previews using old photo with same name

Everyday I do my customer DVD's in the same format. I capture, then edit, take eight screen shots (as jpeg's) to use in iDVD for the title screen. Then after I have checked the completed DVD I delete the Jpeg's and the iDVD project. I also delete the iMovie project as I use a standard template with promo at the start and credits at the end.
After upgrading to iDVD 6 (i did upgrade iMovie 5 to 6 but had to go back because of bugs) I have noticed that when I add my jpeg's to the drop zones they appear correct but the preview in the background shows another jpeg. Looks like a previous jpeg used for another project that I have since deleted.
Has anyone else had this problem. I found that if I go back and rename the latest images I want to use (i normally just use a generic name like c1, c2, c3 etc) it works fine until now. But I am sure this problem will resurface with time even using full names.
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All,
I had the same issue.
In my case, Blob Cache was enabled for the web application in which the image issue was occuring.
I cleared blob cache, and after doing a hard refresh of my browser, the correct image was then displayed.
To clear blob cache, do the following:
Navigate to:
http://yourwebapp:port/yoursite/_layouts/objectcachesettings.aspx
Select: "Object Cache Flush" and "Force all servers in the farm to flush their object cache" check boxes
Click the OK button
Hope this helps.

"Replace" does not work with drop zones?

I set up a project in FCPX using "dummy" stock footage - edited drop zones, changed size/position of clips, etc...
Now want to simply replace the stock footage with footage from the event browser.
Dragging selections from the event browser to the timeline causes the replaced footage to appear full-screen - all editing work is lost.
Is there another way to do this?

When you drag over a clip in the timeline you are replacing that clip - which is precisely what you are getting, so no weird behavior here.
How to do it properly depends on which generators you used, but you probably need to just replace the drop zone clips, which is done in the inspector. Select the title or generator and in the inspector select the appropriate drop zone and choose the clip you want.
In the picture below I am using a split screen generator with two drop zones for left and right. The left drop zone is selected.
Once I click on a clip in the browser, it will appear; the choice is finalized by clicking the "Apply Clip" button.

Trying to make a button with a drop zone

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Hi,
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