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# Control zones from shots

Make the screen rearrange itself on a button press. A shot can morph the project’s zone layout to one of its **variations** — the zones animate from their current rectangles to the variation’s over a duration and easing curve you choose. This is how a squeeze happens: the same zones, staged in new positions, sliding into place when the shot fires.

## The Shot Zone tab

A shot’s **Shot Zone** tab holds the zone layout, alternate layouts, and morph settings for that shot:

* **Zone Variation** — which arrangement of the project’s layout this shot plays in. **Master** is the layout’s home arrangement; every variation the layout carries is listed by name.
* **Duration** — how long the morph takes, in seconds.
* **Timing** — the easing curve: **Linear**, **Ease In**, **Ease Out**, or **Ease In+Out**.

When the incoming shot’s variation differs from what is on screen, Captivate animates every zone from its current rectangle to its new one — content and all — over the duration. Zones travel by name between their two positions; the picture inside each zone scales to fit as its rectangle moves.

## Variations: one layout, many arrangements

A variation repositions the layout’s zones without changing what they are — names, tags, colors, z-order, and fit all stay with the master; only the rectangles differ. Create them in the Zone Layout Editor: the tab bar above the canvas shows the master (marked ♛) and each variation, **Create Layout Variation** adds one, and switching tabs previews the morph. A variation’s zones can sit partly or wholly **outside** the project frame — parked offscreen, invisible on output, ready to move in.

## Build a squeeze

An L-bar squeeze in three steps:

1. In the Zone Layout Editor, give your layout a variation — call it **Squeeze** — where the main zone shrinks toward a corner and the L-bar zones (sponsor panel along the side, ticker along the bottom) sit in the frame. In the **Master** arrangement, park those same L-bar zones outside the frame.
2. Map your sponsor content and ticker to the L-bar zones — see [Map media and titles to zones](/set-up-your-production/chapter-index-1/map-media-to-zones.md). While the master arrangement is live, they render offscreen: staged, but invisible.
3. Create a shot with **Zone Variation** set to **Squeeze**, a comfortable **Duration**, and an easing curve. Fire it: the main picture squeezes down as the L-bar slides in from outside the frame. A second shot set back to **Master** reverses the move.

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Variations come with zone layouts; both are part of Enterprise.
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## Related

* [Set up a zone layout](/set-up-your-production/chapter-index-1/set-up-a-zone-layout.md)
* [Create Shot Layouts](/control-your-show/chapter-index-1/creating-shot-layouts.md) — building the shots that drive all of this.


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