Menu pixelation

Hi

I have created a menu for an SD PAL DVD, in DVD Studio (v 4.2.2) pro by the following method:

-In photoshop created a menu design on a canvas of 1024x576 pixels at resolution 72DPI.
(menu consist of a simple logo and then 2 film titles of black text on white)
-Flattened the image and imported into DVD studio pro.
-In photoshop created an overlay of grayscale on transparaent with icons needed the buttons.
-In DVD studio pro the menu is set as the menu background and the overlay with icons is used for the buttons.

The menu background and button icons all work fine but the quality of both of them both looks awful, very pixelated and like its low res. However in photoshop and any other image viewer the psd files look fine.

I have tried the following:

-creating the psd files at 300 DPI.
-Saving the files as JPEG and TIFF instead of PSD.

But this makes no difference.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Ceri

Yeah you do not want DVDSP to do any resizing to your menus. Also you'll find PSD based menus are very limiting in terms of performance. Read your manual about the single layer simple highlight method instead- that's what most DVDs use.

Noah

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1024x576 square pixels. This needs to be resized to 720x576 anamorphic pixels before importing into DVD SP.
Or rather start with Photoshop preset PAL Widescreen 720x576.

Alex Asp/Solaris Digital Ltd.
Subtitle utilities HERE
Anti-aliasing for Highlights and Subtitles:HERE