Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 - Manual (Page 234)

The options in the Drop Palette depend on the type of asset you are dragging, whether
you drag it to a button or an empty area of the menu, and the type of menu (standard
or layered). For example, if you drag a video asset to an existing button, the Drop Palette
provides the options of linking the video to the button and creating a track for it. If you
drag the same asset to an empty part of the menu, the Drop Palette contains options for
either using the video as the background, or adding a button at that location and linking
it to the video.
• If you drag an asset and you don’t see the options you expect in the Drop Palette: You may
not have dragged it to the right place. Continue holding down the mouse button and
drag the asset to the correct location.
• If you drag to the menu but do not wait for the Drop Palette to appear: A default action
is applied.
• If you select an option that creates a new button on the menu: That button will use the
default button style assigned to that menu. This style can determine whether or not
the new button shows a thumbnail image of the asset.
• If you are dragging multiple assets or elements and will be creating multiple buttons: The
new buttons will be stacked together. To avoid problems with having overlapping
buttons on a menu, be sure to drag them away from each other after they have been
created.
See Options in the Drop Palette for Standard Menus and Options in the Drop Palette for
Layered Menus for a complete list of Drop Palette options and details on what they do.
About Dragging Video and Audio Assets Together
Several of the Drop Palette options only appear when you select and drag a video/audio
asset pair. A video/audio asset pair is created when you select a video asset, and then
hold down the Command key and select a companion audio asset. (There are also other
ways to select an asset pair, depending on where you are dragging from.)
Having Audio Automatically Follow the Video
If you drag a motion video asset by itself to the Menu Editor and choose an option from
the Drop Palette that supports audio, DVD Studio Pro checks to see if there is an audio
asset in the same folder with the same basic name as the video asset. If the option does
support audio (such as creating a track or setting a menu’s background), and an audio
file is not already assigned to the target element, DVD Studio Pro can automatically add
the audio asset to the element, depending on the “Find matching audio when dragging”
setting in the Track pane of DVD Studio Pro Preferences.
Note: You can override the “Find matching audio when dragging” preferences setting
by pressing the Command key after you start dragging the video asset.
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