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About drop zones

Drop zones are sections of a menu to which you can add slideshows, movies, and still images to add visual interest to your project. When you start a project and choose a theme, the drop zones on each menu are clearly marked.

Drop zones are for visual embellishment only. You can’t add audio to them and they don’t link to other parts of a project. For example, a viewer can’t click a drop zone to play a movie or to link to another menu.

Different themes have varying numbers of drop zones, and some themes have what are called “dynamic drop zones,” which move around the menu screen. You can choose to hide all drop zones on a menu screen so that they don’t appear in your final DVD, but you cannot delete individual drop zones or add additional ones.

You fill drop zones by dragging individual photos, photo albums, or movies from the Media pane into a drop zone. Or, you can double-click a drop zone to open the drop zone editor, where you can add or change the contents of all the drop zones in the menu at once.

Related Topics

Adding images and movies to drop zones

Adding or hiding drop zones

Using the drop zone editor

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