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Setting the duration of a movie in a drop zone

When you add a movie to a drop zone, you can specify how long it will play. For example, if you add a 4-minute movie to a drop zone, you can change its duration so it plays for only 30 seconds.

A DVD menu may have several drop zones to which you add movies, as well as image buttons and menu backgrounds to which you add movies. All such movies for the same menu have the same duration. So if you change the duration of one, it changes the duration of them all. The maximum duration you can set is the length of the longest movie on the menu, up to 15 minutes.

To change the duration of a drop zone movie:

Step 1

Make sure the menu that includes the drop zone you want to modify is showing in the iDVD window.

Step 2

With your pointer over the menu, press Command-I to open the Menu Info window.

The Loop Duration slider indicates the length of the longest movie that has been added to the selected menu, either to a drop zone or as the menu background.

Step 3

Drag the Loop Duration slider to the number of seconds you want the drop zone movie to play, up to the length of the longest movie included in the menu.

If you have several movies in your menu, and you set the loop duration to its maximum (which is the duration of the longest movie in the movie), the shorter movies loop until the longest movie plays through.

Related Topics

Repositioning an image or movie in a drop zone

Adding images and movies to drop zones

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