Edit drop zone titles, how to

Hi,
Unfortunately, I cannot seem to intuit how to edit the default titling in iDVD. I'm using a 7.0 Theme called "Revolution". Thanks for your input.
Sincerely,
Katie

Just click on the title and over-type it.
A good guide to iDVD 7 can be found here:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/idvd_07_stone.html
Apple's tutorial on iDVD 07/08 is here:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/idvd_08_getting_started.pdf

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How to edit existing theme drop zones ?

I have created an opening theme with 3 drop zones. Have saved the project file. All is ok at this point.
Now, later, I want to edit / change one of the items/content in the drop zones. How do I recall/ edit the content of the existing drop zones for this existing theme in my time line ?

Jeff,
Once the theme is rendered the only way to change it is to redo it. The whole thing.
Matt

"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.

Drop Zone question

Hi, using DVDSP4, I created a drop zone, then dropped a still photo asset into the drop zone. I need to now move the asset, that is, show a different portion of the asset in the drop zone. How do I do that? THANKS!

Didn't want to start a new thread....
I'm just a recent beginner with DVDSP4. I have the same problem more or less. I followed Colin's post instructions above, which appear to be the same as in the User manual page 276.Neither method really works.
My situation is that I can position my 6 x 8 landscape format photo easily horizontally as per these instructions, but but not vertically. No movement possible up and down. The heads of 2 people are still cut off, although there's plenty of headroom around these people in the photo.
Just can't figure out what to do, or what I'm doing wrong.
Regards. Robert

IDVD quits using drop zones

My iDVD'08 automatically shuts down when ever I click on the Media button or the 'edit drop zones' button. It is very frustrating. I've resorted to dragging photos in from the photo browser. I would really like it to work the way it is supposed to. Any ideas please?

what have you tried so far? did you already Repair Permissions? did you drag the plist for iDvd to the trash and Restart the mac?
com.apple.iDvd.plist
tell us more about the mac you are working with. As in available HD space on the startup volume and the amount of ram, etc. The more we know, the sooner we'll be able to help troubleshoot.

I don't understand how the drop zone works in Title effects.

I am having trouble understanding how the drop zone in the "Keynote" title effect works. I added the title effect to my storyline. In the inspector, Title tab, I selected the clip in the Event library, in this case a tiff photo. The thumbnail and clip title display in the inspector, but the clip does not display in the Viewer when I play the storyline even after FCPX has rendered.
Am I missing something in my understanding of this title effect or is there a problem in FCPX (10.0.6)? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
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There are two ways in which drop zones are available in the Keynote title template. What Luis has shown you is the normal way in which a title placed over a clip shows you the original clip with the title text. That is called a Final Cut placeholder type of drop zone. Keynote also offers a drop zone to be used as a background choice instead of a gradient or solid as you see in Luis's post. This makes a very nice title effect as you can use any clip for that background. That is what I thought you were refering to when you you said drop zone. Keynote is one of the nicer titles we have available in FCP because of this feature. Glad you got it sorted out.

How do I add a photo to a drop zone in a title?

Friends,
I'm making a movie using the "Snapshot" title. It appears to have a drop zone to add a photo, but I can't figure out how to add the photo. Can you help?
Thanks!
Steve

My mistake -- it's the "Scrapbook" title, in the bumpers/openers group. I have the same question for the "comic book" title.
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How to add more than one clip to a drop zone? New guy

Hey all, I'm new to DVD studio and I'm trying to fiqure out how to add more than one clip to a Template drop zone. I'm using a 6 button template. I've named each button .. Football, Baseball, Hockey ...etc.
How can put in MORE THAN ONE CLIP in the Football track/drop zone. So when someone clicks on Football they can see 3 examples.
Do I need to create something to link to that Football button?
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You can edit the segments to be used in FCP or Motion so that the asset drop in has three examples
Another way (if you want) is to make the entire menu outside of DVD SP so that the background layer is an m2v and the items are revealed/masked to some degree
Take a look towards the bottom of this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2951183&#2951183 where I discuss http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/Overmovies.zip
Note that you can also use a basic overlay to do this. The overlay would be just solid black instead of the arrows/circles things I use in that example.
For instance make the text one color and the box over the movie another (You can make it blue and the box red lets say) Draw a region over both for the button. Map blue for highlights/transparencies for normall/selected/activated and the same for the Box

How to add more drop zones or movies in an idvd menu

I was building a dvd in idvd and ran out of drop zones to fill but I couldn't figure out how to add more drop zones.
I tried different templates but I could find none that had more than 12 drop zones.
Then I was adding movies to the main menu and idvd refused to allow more movies added when I reached 10 movies. It said that the template did not accept more movies.
I tried a few other templates and could not get it to accept more.
I don't want to add submenus because the movies being used do not lend themselves to being put into different submenus.
Is there some way to add more than the default drop zones in an idvd template and to add more movies in a menu without having to use submenus?
Thanks for any advice.

I couldn't figure out how to add more drop zones
Sorry, the templates 'are what they are'.
I don't want to add submenus because the movies being used do not lend themselves to being put into different submenus.
You need to figure out how to work with what is available.
If you want more freedom, buy Apple's Final Cut Studio and learn to use DVD Studio Pro.

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How do you adjust the timings of a video placed in a drop zone?

Hi,
I brought a template online and have dropped a video into one of the drop zones. It plays fine, although I would like it to start in a different place and fade the sound in and out.
How do I go about doing this?
Thanks

Trim the Out point of your video so that the entire clip is not in your project (this is so you can slip the video and audio). This step may or may not be necessary if the drop zone is not the same length as your video clip.
Open the timing pane (F6). Hold down OPT while dragging the layer to slip the clip in the project. This will also slip the audio. Once you have it in the right spot, click the audio display button at the bottom of your timing pane (it looks like a little speaker). This will show you your audio track.
Select the audio layer and go to add behavior/audio/audio fade in out. In the inspector, adjust the behavior to taste.
Andy

How do I resize an image within a drop zone (not the drop zone itself) in motion 5?

How do I resize an image within a drop zone (not the drop zone itself) in motion 5?

I think others would be able to help if you describe a little more why you'd like to do this. Given that drop zones are a way of passing images into Motion that you want to manipulate, resizing a drop zone is the equivalent of resizing the image.
If you're having a problem with an image from Final Cut being too big or too small, select the Drop Zone in the inspector and make sure the Fit parameter is set to 'Fit' - 'Center' will result in images dropped not being scaled to fit the Drop Zone. 'Stretch' will force the dropped image to fill the space defined by the drop zone,
If the image is already cropped and scaled up in Final Cut Pro, that is the information that Motion gets - you can't scale down the image to see more of the edges that have been cropped off.
If you want more than one copy of the image passed via the drop zone, use Make Clone Layer from the Object menu.

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.
I have several questions.
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).
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Drop Zone Problem in Title

I use the "Keynote" for a Bumper Title. I can assign a clip to the drop zone and it displays it in the Inspector (name and thumbnail), but it won't display it in the viewer when I play the segment from the timeline.
I tried different clips (images, videos) and placed the title on the primary storyline and as connected clip. Doesn't show up.
Am I missing something?

Yes you're right. I though the Drop Zone is for that area that moves to the side. However, that area is actually the transparency area of the title clip that incorporates the footage of the primary story line underneath. And of course the title has to be a connected clip on top of it.
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