DVD Menu Size

[Peter Gruden]

The original question was how to make a dvd from HD video, with proper fullscreen menu, without black borders.

I’ll decribe my very simple workflow in pal.
I first resize HD video uniformly to 1024×576, and then horizontaly to 720X576, for 16:9 anamorhic format.

For menu creation, there are two ways.
I create 720×576 Photoshop document with pixel aspect ratio D1/DV Pal widescreen. However working with wide pixels does not look nice in Photoshop.

A better way is to create menu in Photoshop with 1024×576 square pixels and then squeeze it horizontaly to 720×576. The final quality is better and I can work in Photoshop with undistorded material. Pixel aspect ratio of the exported 720×576 psd should be set to D1/DV pal widescreen, for Encore to interpret it correctly.

[Austin Culkp]

Thank you all for the help, I’ve burned a copy and it looks good! I have another question but I’ll start a new thread to not confuse things.