DVD LAB PRO Blurry menu? pics inlcuded now

[ryan_megan]

Why does my menu look great in dvd lab pro - but look low res'd and blurry as all hell after I compiled and reopened it as a dvd?

It's quite maddening that the outputs look like such garbage.

[Noahtuck]

Could you be more vague
What are you using for the menu ?
video, still photo ?
res of either ?
if a still photo how are you adding it for a menu BG ?
ect. ect. ect.

I have authored well beyond 100 dvd's with DLP and only had that problem once.
It was because i added the photo in the video and audio assets and put it into the menu and stretched it to fill the window, but adding the same photo to the background section then using them does not.

[ryan_megan]

i designed the background in PS and brought in through the background folder.


But it's not just the background. It's all the elements including the text added with DVDpro.
The colors alsodramtically change - (comparing project view with the output on the same monitor) - but I'm less concerened about the color acuarcy and more about overall fuzzyness of it. It's as if the menu was formatted for veiwing on a very very small screen.

Ill try to post some screen caps soon. But I'm on a deadline and this is supposed to go to some network bigwigs at the end of today.

[ryan_megan]

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/5446/aftercompileix0.jpg
this is a screen cap of the compiled dvvd menu



this is and export of the menu from dvd pro - it also looks a lot fuzzier than it does within dvdlab pro - but not nearly as bad as the complied dvd
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7686/menuos9.jpg


is this the quality I should expect from this product or is there something I can do?

[guns1inger]

The first screen capture is much higher than DVD resolution, so I would expect it to be soft. Menu resolution is 720 x 540 in DLP, adjusted for pixel aspect ratio on compilation to either 720 x 480 or 720 x 576 depending ont he format you are working in. The image you posted is twice that size, and will there show some softening.

Secondly, I have never been happy with how DVDs look on the PC, regardless of player used. They always look much worse than they do on the TV.

I also use DLP, and design my stills and overlays in PS CS2 (I don't use any of the actual design features in DLP, I use it for compilation and authoring only), and don't have any problems with clarity.