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?

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Photos in Drop Zones not visible

Hi,
I recently purchased a refurbished iMac and have used iDVD previously, but am having trouble with it now. It's my first attempt at iDVD since I bought the computer. I'm using a 6.0 theme, Reflection Black. When I drop photos into one of the eight drop zones, the zones go black. I can see in the drop zone editor area that the photo is loaded, just not visible. The twist is that the first time I use the photo it works. But if I try to drop it in the second time, or close the saved draft and then reopen, I get a black image where the photo should be. I've searched on the help topics, and can't figure it out.
Thank you!

You're right. There's not alot of info available on this particular issue regarding invisible slideshow photos. So let's try the following.
You say the photos are showing in the drop zone editor nevertheless ..... correct?
What happens when you add a transition (simple 3 second dissolve for example)?
If that fails to help then add music as well and then set the slideshow to "fit to audio". Post back with your results.
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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.

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PPT files always default to 720x540, and while checking that box will do the job, if you want to change the file so it's actually the correct size, you can always do that on the Document inspector (or apply a new theme to the entire file and choose 800x600 or 1024x768 as the size, it'll resize your file for you).

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.

Photo dragged to drop zone not resized

iDVD is supposed to automatically resize photos dragged to drop zones to fit the screen. Not so. The photo I dragged was cropped and enlarged. How do I fix it?

I also had this problem and it was only by chance that I decided to use a still image from my film to use in one of the drop zones (from iMovie). This photo fit perfectly in the narrow portrait drop zone. I opened the photo in Photoshop to discover the size is actually 960 x 720. I created a new image with these dimensions and placed my desired image in the exact middle of the display. Voila!

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.
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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.

Photo Thumbs Weight More Than Full-Size Photos

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Thanks.

Forever Theme Frames around drop zone pictures - can I remove them?

I'm using the forever theme. There are frames around drop zone photo's - not buttons. I've tried hitting the buttons bar with the drop zone highlighted and clicking the none button - but it stays with a white boarder around it. So - i looked in the theme contents - but I don't find anything that looks like a white frame... I checked out the plist file -and it looked all compiled - funny script and all - any way to eliminate these frames? I use a lot of transparent gifs for the purpose that I don't want a frame around them - so they just float over the background.

Does this help?
From the iDvd Help Menu:
Repositioning an image or movie in a drop zone
When you drag a picture or movie into a drop zone, the aspect ratio of the image is preserved, but it is scaled larger or smaller to fill the drop zone. As a result, sometimes part of the image is cut off and does not appear in the drop zone. In this case, you can move the image to choose which portion is visible in the drop zone.
To reposition an image or movie in a drop zone:
1.) From the drop zone on the menu (not in the drop zone editor), click the image or movie and press Command.
2.) Drag the image until the part you want is visible in the drop zone.
Keep these things in mind as you position an image:
If you drag a narrow image to a drop zone, the image is scaled vertically, and you can move the image up or down only.
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.
If you accidentally drag the image too far, you will remove it from the drop zone. (The cursor changes from a hand to a puff of smoke.) Choose Edit > Undo to restore the image to the drop zone.
Repositioning a movie in a drop zone is different from selecting which part of a movie shows in a drop zone (which allows you to select which frame of the movie is displayed in a drop zone). For more information, see Related Topics below.

IDVD replaces photos in drop zones

Hi. I have iDVD '08 and I burned a dvd. I was using the "Revolution" theme. It had a picture of my cousin in one of the drop zones. After I burned the DVD, I viewed it in my dvd player and the drop zone that had a picture of my cousin now had a picture of one of my cats. I don't know if I did something wrong, but I made sure it was my cousin in the drop zone BEFORE I burned the DVD. I SWEAR that I did not put a picture of my cat in it. Any ideas of what happened?

You're right. There's not alot of info available on this particular issue regarding invisible slideshow photos. So let's try the following.
You say the photos are showing in the drop zone editor nevertheless ..... correct?
What happens when you add a transition (simple 3 second dissolve for example)?
If that fails to help then add music as well and then set the slideshow to "fit to audio". Post back with your results.
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Photo Book - issue with generating full size picture in PDF file

Need some assistance here.
I have created a photo book that I would like to order. In the middle of the book I have 2 pages that contain a full size picture on each of the pages. When I generate the PDF file one of these two pictures do not generate correctly leaving an incorrectly rendered rectangle in the bottom left hand corner. 80% of the time it is on of the 2 large 8x10 pictures, the other 20% it is the other 8x10 picture. Aperture does indicate the dpi is large enough to support a quality 8x10 photo.
I have exported jpeg files for each of these pictures and there were no problems. I am not sure by I have this problem in creating the PDF. Does any one see a potential issue with the book? When I order the photo book is it done through he PDF file or are the pictures sent in?
Because of the issue I am cautious to order the Photo Book, but would like to do so.
Any thought or feedback? Is this something that will come through as problem with the photo book as well?
Thanks

Hi ejg999,
I have a similar problem running 10.5.2/ Aperture 2.0 trial.
My 15800*4700 pixel (19.8mb) panorama was completely screwed up when printing the book to PDF. I did not span the pict over 2 pages as the center part would not be visible in the book's fold. I created 2 full size pages, resized the frames and adjusted their position.
The print just shows hundreds of small squares, some seem ok, some are blue, some are rendered partially. Totally unusable.
The physical memory was not the problem as I had at least 500mb free during the printing operation.
I printed the book twice: same problem. I thought shutting down Aperture would resolve the error. but all my pics were gone. And the Time Machine did not backup while Aperture was running (still a bug). Aaaaaarghhhh.
I managed to restore my work. I will try to create a smaller copy of the panorama and try to print.
BTW, what is the size of your photo creating the problems?
regards
FranzMacN

Curl a photo (or drop zone)

I want to make a photo (drop zone for that matter) have a curve to it. As if I had a tube and wanted to bend the photo around it. I cannot seem to find a filter to achieve this. Is it possible? Maybe there is a filter but I am not using the controls correctly.
Thanks,
Brian

This may not be exactly what you want, but here's a still:
that shows the use of the Displace filter along with a gradient filled rectangle to bend an image. I used a copy of the same rectangle to provide some shading...
Here's the project so you can see what I mean...
Patrick

Drop Zones Not Appearing

The drop zones on the main menu of the DVD do not appear. I open the Drop Zone editor and it has a box for the Menu, but not a box for the drop zone. However, the sub menus are the same theme and have drop menus. I have tried Command-I and click the box at the bottom, but nothing.
Please help. Thank you.

That is so strange. I have drop zones on the above iDvd'08 theme that I can activate with a simple check mark or get rid of them by unchecking the same box.
If your software isn't allowing for such an option then I'd consider re-installing iDvd'08.
You do know that after you check or uncheck that tiny box at the foot of the inspector, that you then need to click on the screen which then activates or deactivates the drops zone/s. At least that's the way mine works. For example ....
Click Here
Btw ... before you do any re-installing of this software, please try a separate user account and launch iDvd from the new account to see if this duplicates the very same behavior or not.
Good luck on this and I'll check back with you later. (Wife and I have a date).
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Photos in DROP ZONE of iDVD 08

Hi there. I used to be able to move photos around slightly (left to right/ up and down) in the old iDVD. When I updated to 08 this is no longer possible.
After a quick search here I found someone mentioning holding down the command button when moving it - but that doesn't make any difference to me - all it does is whoosh the photo out of the drop zone and delete it.
Can anyone give me step by step / idiot guide to moving photos around the drop zone please? I am fed up with them being off centre.
S

When I hold down the Command key (Apple key) I can move the image from right to left.
If you want to move up or down, I suspect you need to crop the image so that it only shows the 'vertical information' you want to show in the drop zone.

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