White letterbox bars on menu in DVDLab Pro

[FaterCarras]

Hi All,

I'm in the process of mastering a program in DVDLab Pro but am having a bit of a problem with my motion menu's

when the DVD is burned everything works fine except on a 4:3 tv.

It's a 16:9 project and all my motion menu's have been imported in the correct aspect ratio.

When shown on a 4:3 tv I've chosen to have the menu displayed in letterbox, but for some reason the letterboxing is in white.

The program incidentally plays with black letterbox bars as expected.

Any help will be gratefully recieved.

[reboot]

Try clicking the Pallette tab, and selecting black.

[FaterCarras]

Doh!

Thanks for your help.

Liked your beginner guide by the way.

Trying out your neon effect at the mo. looks great but how do I get the map to work with it?

When I try the simulation the effect dissapears and is replaced by solid colours from the normal, selected and activated palette in the map.

Any help once again would be very much apreciated.

[reboot]

Turn off mapping colours, and use switched menus instead. Make the neon glow on the selected menu, the colour you want for a selected item, and default on the other menus.

[FaterCarras]

ok

Call me stupid because I thaught the pallette tab thing was so obvious, but it doesn't seem to work.

I take it you meant the pallette tab in the Project Properties menu?

any other ideas would be gratefully accepted.

ta

If it's any help, when run on software DVD playback the letterboxing is black as expected.

Only after shrinking then burning with Nero do the white letterboxes appear

as ever, any help apreciated.

[reboot]

Check the settings on your player!
If it's black on the PC, but white on the player, that should give you the clue
If it's black during playback, then white after shrink, (still on the PC), blame shrink.
If it's black after shrink, but white after nero, blame nero.

[FaterCarras]

Ok

1. It's black on PC but white on several DVD players all which have background colour selected to black ( not that it should matter)

2. It's black on pc and white on player with or without shrink.

3. it's black on player with nero, DVDlab pro's own burner and 2 other burners.

So where lies the blame?

And don't forget that the 2 movies play with black letterboxing on a 4:3 TV, it's only the menue's with active buttons (1 motion, 3 still background) that have the white letterboxing.

the VMG motion menu with no active buttons (just an intro to the DVD) also has the expected black letterboxing.

The only conclusion I can come to is it must be something to do with the buttons in DVD lab Pro, but I don't know why.

Once again any help apreciated.

[FaterCarras]

Finally got it sorted, Still don't know why though.

Thanks for your help Reeboot, and thanks for the neon guide, looks very nice indeed.

cheers

[doctorm]

I know this is a bump to a really old thread, but I ran into the issue today and can explain it.
The borders may be white, or any other color (instead of black), but they really aren't.

What you are seeing is a rectangle of subpicture in the letterbox area.
To fix it, go to your menu in DVD-lab Pro.
On the right side click the "Map" tab.
You have a "Color Map" for "Normal", "Selected", and "Activated".
The one causing the offense is "Normal".

Whatever color you have that set to will also overlay the area that should be the black borders.
Fix it by moving the transparency slider to the far left.

On the down side you can't have "Normal" buttons in any color (they must be invisible), but the problem is gone.
(Actually, if you prefer, you can keep the this color map visible IF you set the color to black.)

Btw, this can also be fixed after authoring by loading the menu's VOB in DVDSubEdit and changing the transparency of the 'p' part of the subpicture to fully transparent.