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Poor quality menu
Hi,
I’m using Encore CS5 on Mac OS X to produce a DVD for a client. They’ve supplied me with a an SD Widescreen DVD menu at 1080 x 576 px. However, once built, and played on a computer, the menu is rather pixelated and unreadable.
It looks fine on a TV, but I’ve seen other home-made DVDs that have a crystal clear menu. Any suggestions on what I’m doing wrong would be gratefully received,
Thanks,
Ryan
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4 Replies
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PAL? NTSC or PAL, 1080×576 doesn’t work. Since CS4, PAL wide, square pixel equivalent, 1050×576.
Stan Jones
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Sorry, yes of course that would have been some important information!
It is PAL, so I’ll give your dimensions a go.
Many thanks,
Ryan
Ryan Stone | Creative Director
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if your on pal you should use 1050×576 if you are working with adobe-products. if you are using apple DVD SP you should use 1024×576 (square px) and then scale it to 720×576 for your work or use a PAL 16:9-setting within photoshop, which will be 720×576 with anamorph pixel-aspec.
cheers
danny
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Once it goes on DVD, it will be 720×576 with anamorphic widescreen. Encore does a very poor job of scaling menus, so you will want to use Photoshop to scale to that size.
1) Create a 720×576 PAL Widescreen document in Photoshop using the presets.
2) Open your menu and drag all the layers into the new 720×576 document.
3) Position into place and save as a new psd. All layers and button groups should have appropriate Encore prefixes.
4) Import the new psd as a menu into Encore.
This should look much better.
Jon Geddes
http://www.precomposed.com
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