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DVD Menu Stretched when exporting to .m2v
Hello! I am creating a DVD with multiple menus, using Photoshop CS to create the menus and DVD Studio Pro for the DVD, and . I have two menus that need to be motion menus, and I’m using Final Cut Pro 5 for this, as the first layer will be a video, with a few Photoshop layers on top of it.
Now, everything works fine when I import my PSD into FCP, all the layers work fine and I can make a 30 second movie to loop for the DVD Motion Menu. When I export the movie using Compressor, I create an .m2v, and when I open it in Quicktime, I notice that the aspect ratio isn’t 720×480, like it’s supposed to be, because the image is now a bit stretched.
I’ve been trying to export using different settings in Photoshop, and have tried different settings for the sequence in FCP (anamorphic vs not, etc). In Photoshop, I originally had my menu at 3000×2000 with 300 DPI, so that the images and text would be very sharp when converted to 720×480. I looked at some sites and they mentioned that I should create my menu as 720×540, or even 864×480, then import them to FCP and export the movie that way, because the rectangle pixels will stretch it to 720×480 and it will look normal. that didn’t work.
Any help is appreciated!
-Brian
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3 Replies
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16:9
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Yes, it definitely looks wider. There is a circle design in the menu, and after exporting, it doesn’t look like a perfect circle. When opening the video in QT, it says that it’s 720×404 in the inspector. What I’m thinking is that my Photoshop image isn’t the correct aspect ratio…
And yes, I created it in FCP with a 720×480 timeline, and then exported using Compressor to m2v. I’m not exactly an FCP expert, so I don’t actually know what a ProRes codec is, or how to implement it.
-B
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Unfortunately, I neither know nor own After Effects. :/
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