cannot get clear image with DVD Menu Creator

[adi_001]

I've spent the last three days trying to create a menu for my dvd and have had no luck at all... I can create the menu without any drama, but I cannot get a crisp image, and have NO luck with my fonts.
So far I have tried the PAL menu system (really blurry), and the NTSC system (not as blurry, but fonts break apart). The fonts I have tried using are: Verdana 14 pt, Verdana 14pt bold, Arial 14pt, Arial 14pt bold, Euromode 16pt.
Since the NTSC menu looks the best so far (and considering all the video files used are NTSC) I have created my image in Photoshop using dimensions of 720*540 at 72dpi, exported as a jpeg or a bmp (i've tried both - and they BOTH become distorted)
Any help at all with this would be most appreciated...

[ChrissyBoy]

Can you email me your jpg background?

[adi_001]

email sent...

[adi_001]

CB, since I got your version of my backgroup, I have probably encoded about 8 or 9 different dvds, with only one of them not blurring the text. I do not understand why when I use the settings previously mentioned I get extremely blurry and hard to read menus... any help would be greatly appreciated as i'm finding this all very frustrating

[yf2001usa]

I never had a blurry picture... what font do you use? and what kind of picture (.bmp, .jpg and quality [dots per inch] do you use)

Greatings,
Yf

the fonts are listed in an earlier post in this thread, and my images have been hq jpegs at 72dpi - i have also tried usig bitmaps, but with the same result