Insert Movie into drop zone?

When I drop my movie in which is a logo animation I made in Lightwave the logo goes way beyond the edges in height and width. If I scale the drop zone To the size of the movie (320x240), it just scales the movie up along with it. What gives?

How are you making the drop zone?
If you drag the movie from the bin to the menu, you can scale to any size in inspector
If you are setting it into a pre-made shape such as with borders) you can still adjust in inspector but the movie is part of the inspector
(Also note that you should be careful about posting the same issue a few times in a short period of time, people will answer, just give it some time)

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Okay, so I found some pics in the browser but when I went to drag them into the drop zone, the image did not go into into the drop zone, and instead a new layer was created. I've tried this countless times and can't seem to gt the pictures to go in the drop zones.
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The problem is one of interpretation. What you are seeing are grey "replace media" items which need to be replaced with what you want. They aren't 'drop zones' ala IDVD or DVDSP (basically it's an image with a mask or overlay over it giving it that 'drop zone' look)
There are many ways of changing/replacing the "media" items (this is Apple after all ;):
1) If you press F5, you open up the "Layers/Media/Audio" window. Click "Media" and you'll see all the elements used to make up the template, including "replace 1.jpg" etc.
2)Click on one of the "replace" files. Then click the "Inspector" tab in the Browser window. Then you'll see a window that says "Linked Objects." and below that "replace media file." Click "Replace media File" and then choose the file you want to insert/replace (you'll have to de-select "Show Matching Names Only" to be able to replace it with your own file)
OR:
1) press F6 and open the Timeline window.
2) Scroll down and you will see a layer called "Replace"
3) Open up that layer (click the triangle) and you will see Replace 1, Replace 2, etc (depends on your template)
4) Drag the image you want to insert/replace into the template to the sublayer called "replace 1" etc.
There are other ways, but these two are the most 'stable' I have found.

Multiple movies in drop zones

Can drop zones accept more than one movie clip? Everytime I try, I get the message, "Action not supported in iDVD".
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hi dodger48,
Welcome to the Discussions.
Can drop zones accept more than one movie clip?No. You can put the clips together into one with iMovie and use that.

Background movie and drop zones?

Hello everyone, I'm Dion (David's son), and I'm trying to make an iDVD theme which has a custom moving background and drop zones.
I'm modifying the theme "Sliding Panes", which has seven drop zones. When I drag my custom movie either to the background of the theme or to the Background well in the Settings pane, the background movie is applied, but the drop zones disappear. I've tried everything I can think of (which isn't much, I'm not an iDVD veteran) to avoid this, which includes opening the Drop Zone Editor and then trying to drag the movie to the Background well, which, obviously, doesn't work.
I would sincerely appreciate any advice or answer anyone has - even if it doesn't work.

If you replace the theme background with anything you're going to remove the drop zones that are designed to play within that theme's background. I guess it has "holes" in the background where the drop zones play. You would have to have transparent spots in your movie so the drop zones would play thru. Even then I'm not sure replacing the theme background wouldn't remove the drop zones from use.
You could try the following. Select the sliding panes theme and make it a favorite. The in your User/Library/iDVD/favorites folder find that theme, go into the them package, locate the Contents/Resurces folder in there and substitute your movie for the backgroundmoive that's in there. You'll have to rename your movie accordingly. That may do it. Be sure to do it on a favorite copy so in case it doesn't work you can just remove that them from that folder.
Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.
OT

Movement of drop zones appears jerky on preview

Hi,
I am using the Reflection Black theme in iDVD 6. I put an individual photo into each drop zone but on preview, the movement of the panels is really jerky and does not appear smooth at all. Is it supposed to be like that ?
Also, how do you add several photos to each drop zone. I know it is possible to do this but each time I try to move several photos, it just replaces one and does not allow more.
Any suggestions ?

I used that theme and it was jerky every time I launched iDVD and in Preview. The DVD is fine.
Also, how do you add several photos to each drop zone...it just replaces one and does not allow more.
I think you can only have one image in each drop zone. Some previous drop zones allowed multiple images.

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I've followed the thread regarding mac book pros and hang ups with iDVD 08 and the 7.0 themes. I have a G5 and can't get the 'Revolution' 7.0 them on main menu to allow me to 'drop' a jpeg into its drop zone. I drag the jpeg over, the green sign appears like its going to allow it to be dropped, it drops but the zone remains black like nothing is there. When I go to the info tree for the drop zones, its shows up like it is there, but on the main menu it remains empty. Any one with any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any info.

Roger,
What happens if you click on the Drop Zone button and drag the image there?
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Exact Frames for movie in drop zone

I am trying to get some exact frames for a movie in one of my drop zones. Looks like the slider only moves in 30 second increments. I know this correlates to the length of the loop for my menu. However, I would like to know if there's a way to move the slider more precisely. There is a certain frame I would like it start on and I just can't seem to get the slider to stop on it.

Well, I have my Leopard disks, but have not installed it on this computer.....tried it out on my son's Mac mini first. Not sure I am ready for it yet. Maybe after reading that all the initial problems with it have been resolved......mayber after the 5th revision !
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Photos won't drop on Drop zones

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see this
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LM
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Then click on it once
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