## Overview

Drop Zone provides a quick way to compress files by dragging and dropping them onto a designated area that appears near your Mac’s notch (or top of screen). When you drag supported files, the Drop Zone automatically appears, ready to receive your files for compression.

## Supported File Types

- **Video** \- mp4, mov, webm, and other video formats
- **Image** \- jpg, png, webp, and other image formats
- **GIF** \- Animated GIF files
- **PDF** \- PDF documents

## Getting Started

1. Open the Settings window and choose the **Drop Zone** tab
   
2. Toggle on **Enable Drop Zone** to enable the feature
   
3. Customize compression settings for Drop Zone
   
4. Drag files to the Drop Zone to start compression

## Configuration Options

### Compression Settings Type

| Option                       | Description                                                            |
|------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Last used settings**       | Uses the same settings as your default compression settings             |
| **Custom**                   | Configure separate settings specifically for Drop Zone                  |

### Video Settings

When using custom settings, you can configure:

- **Video quality**: highest, high, good, medium, acceptable
- **Video resolution**: Keep same or resize to specific dimensions
- **Video format**: same, mp4, webm
- **Remove audio**: Strip audio track from videos

### Image Settings

- **Image quality**: highest, high, good, medium, acceptable
- **Image format**: same, webp, jpg, png
- **Image size**: Keep same, percentage, or fixed pixel width

### GIF Settings

- **GIF quality**: highest, high, good, medium, acceptable
- **GIF dimension**: Keep same or resize

### PDF Settings

- **PDF quality**: best, high, balance, low

### Output Settings

#### Remove Input File

Enable to automatically delete the original file after compression.

#### Output Folder

| Option     | Description                                              |
|------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| **Same**   | Save compressed files in the same folder as input       |
| **Nested** | Save to a subfolder (default: “compressed”)             |
| **Custom** | Choose a specific output folder                          |

Drop Zone automatically detects when you’re dragging supported file types and only appears when relevant files are being dragged.