Copying DVD menu WITHOUT quality loss

[dwiesel]

I've been trying to use a menu from a specific DVD as a menu in another DVD project...the problem is, when I author and play, there is slight but noticeable quality loss.

What I've been doing is copying the DVD menu down to a BMP (and I've tried different programs to do this), and then import that BMP into my authoring program (using different programs). The results always yield a slightly blurrier menu. I thought maybe I was saving it as the wrong bitmap resolution, I've tried 720x480, and 640x480, no luck.

Does anyone have any ideas? Many thanks.

[daamon]

Hi dwiesel,

You might have better luck using something like DVDRemake - you can effectively edit the DVD structure, what menus are used, buttons, what they link to etc. Though you can't add text / images to a menu.

[dwiesel]

Thanks...I'm experimenting with DVD-PRO, it seems to be doing the job very well. TMPGENC DVD Author --which I love -- doesn't render bitmap menus very well for some reason (nor does Pinnacle or Ulead).

[daamon]

No problem. There's some good guides out there too - they're listed in this site's guides section, and also on the tool's site.

[MackemX]

I used to use dvdauthor and GUI for dvdauthor but got the same results regarding quality loss

as daamon says you can use dvdremake but if this is a one off I'd suffer the slight quality loss