[Kell Hymer]

Thanks Aleksey. Unfortunately that is the tutorial that I watched. They simply delete the drop zone and add their clip in place. This is fine for the particular project in the demo because it is nothing but a background video. The rest of the effects are on top of that video layer. In my project, the drop zones move in sync with other animation elements. Deleting the drop zone deletes the keyframes and pan/crop settings. I found that by right clicking and dragging the media to the time line i am presented with options to replace the drop one and maintain all of the formatting.

[Kell Hymer]

wow, that was simple enough. Thank you for the assistance.