Dragging a Motion Video Asset to an Empty Area
The following options appear in the Drop Palette:
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Actions
Drop Palette options
• Uses the video as this menu’s background.
• Assigns matching audio as the menu’s audio.
Set Background (default option)
• Creates a button at this menu location.
• Assigns this video to the button’s thumbnail.
• Creates a new track with this video.
• Assigns matching audio as the track’s audio.
• Names the track the same as the video asset.
• Adds a link from the new button to the first marker of the new
track.
• Sets the new track’s End Jump setting to this menu.
Create Button and Track
This option does not create a track or link the button to anything.
• Creates a button at this menu location.
• Assigns this video to the button’s thumbnail, creating a motion
button.
Create Button
• Creates a drop zone at this menu location.
• Assigns this video to the drop zone.
Create Drop Zone
Use this option with video that has had chapter markers added with
Compressor, Final Cut Express, or Final Cut Pro.
If the menu contains no buttons, drop zones, or text objects, this
option changes to Create Chapter Index. Instead of creating a
separate menu as the first chapter index menu, this menu is used.
Additional chapter index menus are created if necessary.
• Creates a track and adds the chapter markers to it.
• Assigns matching audio as the track’s audio.
• Names the track the same as the video asset.
• Sets the new track’s End Jump setting to this menu.
• Creates a button on this menu to link to the first of the new
chapter index menus.
• Creates one or more new chapter index menus, depending on
the number of markers and the button layout used.
• Opens the Choose Template or Layout Style dialog so you can
choose the template or layout style to use for the chapter index
menus.
• Links each chapter marker from the new track to buttons in the
chapter index menus.
• Assigns the video from each marker to its button’s thumbnail.
Create Button and Chapter Index