Wronge clips in drop zones

When I drag a clip into the drop zone of a theme, a different clip appears and plays in it's place. I have tryed deleting the incorrect clip and drag and pasting again, but the same clip keeps comming up. An suggestions?

There's a bug. Instead of playing the clip you drop in the drop zone, iMovie plays from the beginning of that clip's media file.
As Matti suggested, the solution is to export the clip from the Timeline to a Full Quality movie, then import that movie to the project and drag it to the drop zone.
Karl

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Movie Clips in Drop Zones?

I want to place movie clips into the drop zones, but cannot figure out how to do this. When I go to "Media" my movie clips are not available. The movie appears in the bottom portion of the media window, but I cannot get individual clips to put into the zone.

There's a bug in iDVD where indiviadual clips in a folder, that have other folders in with them, don't show up.
Put your clips in a folder without any other folders.
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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.

Can i backtime a clip into a template drop zone?

trying to use a transition template but when i drop the clip into the outgoing clip's drop zone well it goes in from an in point which makes aligning the transition with it's ingoing and outgoing clips a major pain in the ***. Ideally I'd like to just back time the outgoing clip. Can i do this? any other workaround suggestions?
thanks

thanks. i'm not sure if i did exactly what you meant, but i found a pretty good workaround. I put a marker in the template where the new clip starts, then i line that marker up with the edit point between the clips, giving me the ins and outs as you said.
cheers

IDVD drop zones

Hello!
Even though I bought iLife 5 last year when it first came out, I am just now trying to use iMovie/iDVD. I want to use a still I created in iMovie in a drop zone (the tutorial says I can, all I have to do is drag and drop) but each time I do, the drop zone is totally black, like something is there, but there is nothing to be seen. I am also trying to use an audio clip in the same way (for the main menu), but I cannot get it into the audio box in the 'settings' screen. This audio clip is not in iTunes, I recorded it with Audacity and saved it as a wav file and as an AIFF file, but I cannot drag and drop into iDVD or iTunes for that matter. Any suggestions?

Figured out - you must drop an unedited clip into drop zone.

Issue With Drop Zones

Perhaps there's something I'm missing, but whenever I drop clips into bumpers or an opener (specifically, the road trip theme) it shows the a still frame of the clip that is not the beginning of the clip. Whenever I add the desired clip after it, it simply starts from the beginning. Whenever the theme zooms into a clip, shouldn't it seamlessly blend into the clip? I've tried various ways and every time it jumps. At one point it zoomed into a white screen.
Am I missing something?

That's a known bug. Instead of playing from the start of the clip, the drop zone plays from the start of the clip's source file.
Export the clip to a Full Quality movie, import that movie into the project, then drop it into the drop zone.
Karl

Putting video clips in template drop zone

I can't drag my video into the control video drop zone. the computer won't let me drag the video clip anywhere...what could be limiting my ability to do this?

Are you working in FCP or Motion? If FCP, are you working with one of the Motion Master Templates? Also, what is the source of your video and what are it's settings?
-DH

I have 3 consecutive movie clips that I am trying to drop into the drop zone but it only recognizes the first one and only produces the firts one in a DVD. How can I drop all three movie clips into one drop zone

On IDVD, I have 3 consecutive movie clips that I am trying to drop into the drop zone to create a DVD but it only recognizes the first one I dropped and only produced the first one in a DVD. How can I drop all three movie clips into one drop zone.

I have had some luck doing the following: Export each clip from imovie as a quicktime clip. Open iDVD and create a new project. Import a few stills into iDVD and then click on the button that gets created to get into the screen where the individual slides appear. Drag each quicktime into that screen and arrange in the order you want. You can then delete the stills. The button that appeared when you dropped in the stills will launch a complete show.

Apple motion 5 template drop zones play only 1080p video clips. 720p will play outside of dropzone.

I am also getting a -1 error when trying to export with the 720p clip in a dropzone. I bought the clip stock and they didn't offer this one in 1080p. Is there any explanation as to why this clip will not run in the dropzone but does on the canvas?

You shouldn't be "loading" drop zones in Motion. You should be doing that in FCPX (as long as the drop zone source well is published.) You do not have to use Motion to "bake" video for import into FCPX. Install the template for FCPX [ place the effect folder in ~/yourHomeFolder/Movies/Motion Templates/<TypeOfEffect>/<CategoryFolder - create a new one if you want>/<place effect folder here> ]
The types of effects are Effects, Titles, Generators, Transitions.
The effect you bought came in a folder. That folder structure must be maintained for FCPX. That usually means: a Motion document (.moef, .moti, .motr or .motn file), 2 .pngs and a Media folder. If any of these are missing, it will not work in FCPX.
To use the drop zone in FCPX, apply the effect to the clip (or if it is a Title, place the title over the storyline); click on the Drop Zone source well, then click on the clip you want to apply to the drop zone from either the Event browser or the storyline. You'll see a "2-up" display, and you should see an "Accept" button in the viewer to finalize the application to the drop zone.
If you have the same problems in FCPX, let us know!

Video clip skewed outside of drop zone...

All,
The roadshow idvd6 theme (widescreen) has 6 drops zones -- when I drag clips to the small zones in the upper right, they drop fine, but are about 40 pixels out of the frame -- like they are not lined up. You can see the movie clip hanging out of the drop zone frame and the drop zone itself is black.
I tried to rre-install idvd and the base theme has the same problem. Another imac I have works fine and the them and drop zones behave correctly. I copied the themes from that imac to the mac pro with the problem and I still have the problem.
Anybody have this problem?
John
Mac Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) 30" monitor.
G4 dual 1ghz Mac OS X (10.4.9) 30" monitor.

I don't think it's a bug to be honest. But it may have to do with a proper setting/s on the monitor / TV.
Mine works very well so I think we can perhaps narrow it down to the widescreen 16:9 mode. Does this also happen for you in standard 4:3 or not?

Making stills from clips for the drop zone

How do I make a still picture from an iMovie clip for the drop zone and paste it to the drop zone?

this option is available in iMovie under create still frame from the edit menu. then from there "save frame as" ... i use jpeg.
Like this:
From there you simply drag and drop the jpeg to iDVD.
Good luck and hope this helps. If so, please take the time to mark your question as "Answered."
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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?
Any replies appreciated

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

QT clips deleted from drop zones & folder. Why?

I had a theme with 8 drop zones. Six of which were filled with QT clips. The clips were stored in a project folder with 15 other clips that I was not using. I went to achive the project and a pop up said it couldn't locate the clips. The clips had been deleted from the drop zones (just the clips not pics that I had in other drop zones)and they were missing from the folder on the hard disk. Any ideas?

Never heard that one before... I have no idea why that would happen "out of the blue."

Drop Zones and Final Cut Placeholders

Hi,
I'm trying to create a generator in Motion 5 that I can use in FCPX. It's fairly simply - a bunch of drop zones for video or photo content and a camera that travels through them in 3D. All fine - looks great in Motion, but when I open the generator in FCPX and try to drag content (either video or photos) into the drop zones, the content just becomes a new background rather than filling the drop zones. I guess I'm probably doing something wrong in Motion rather than FCPX. If I take any of the pre-defined titles (rather than generators) in FCPX that allow one to add a video clip and drag video content onto those titles, it all works as I would expect - the video sits below the title in the timeline and when I play it back, the video is in the right place. Why doesn't that work with my drop zones?
(Apologies if this is just a really stupid question and I've misunderstood generators - I can see that if I try to create a title or a transition, then instead of a standard drop zone, I get final cut placeholders to use, and I think those will do what I expect - trouble is I can only have one of them, and I want several.)
LM

LM
I thnk that Adrie is correct. Place the Generator in the timeline
Then click on it once
In the inspector window, Top Right of the screen you will see the Drop Zone(s)
Click on the Drop Zone Icon in the inpector (see picture) and a message will appear
Locate the clip you want to load into Drop Zone and and click Apply Clip
That should place it correctly
If you want a photo in a Drop Zone, then drag it from the file browser directly to the Drop Zone in the inspector
Hope that helps
G

Drop zone QT format question

sorry to reask this, but apple couldn't answer it, so i'm a bit stumped.
1. what is the best way to use non standard sized qt's in drop zones? i want to use a QT that's roughly 380 x 220 as an animation on the menu. it get's very pixelated at 100%, plus it's difficult to determine the 100% size when scaling in dvd sp, as it brings it in at the default of 180 x 120. in my tests i've had to generate the animation at 2x the size to get a decent result.
apple uses a 640 x 480 QT in one of their tutorials on the discs, but it is sized down. i need to use a non-standard size.
it would be easier to compose the entire static background image with the animation, but the quality of the background image through the mpeg compressor is horrible.
2. you never would need to field render a clip that is not full screen in dvd sp, right?
any ideas?
macbook pro 2.33 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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

Wronge clips in drop zones

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