Bad export quality with DVDlab

[Slim_Jim]

Why is it that the menus in DVDlab looks crystal clear, the text looks sharp and nice and everything looks awesome and works in total harmony, but when compiling the DVD and making an .img file of it everything gets compressed and looks like cr@p, the text is all smudgy and some of the colors looks wierd... like its been compressed from bitmap to jpeg or something? Does it have something to do with the settings of the project or is it always like this? Shouldn't be impossible to create crisp sharp ultra high-quality menus should it?

[guns1inger]

I prep all my menus in photoshop at actual size, including text and sub pictures. I find that often the menu, especially the aliasing on the sub-pictures, looks very poor on the PC, but are crisp when played back on the TV.

[andkiich]

Sometimes what looks good on the PC looks like crap on the TV. Don't forget that you are working with 2 different resolutions. Items for TV should be basic and elementary. The more complex and small they are the more of a chance of them looking like junk.

[Slim_Jim]

Hmm very well, yeah I've noticed my clips looks a bit better on a TV than they do on a pc-screen but can someone tell me why my highlighted text appears orange in DVDlab but blue in the exported .img...? checked all the settings and color mappings, it should be orange. But then its blue anyway...? Un-supported color??

[reboot]

Are you sure you're looking at the correct map tab?
There's 3, normal, hilighted, and activated.
Have you got NTSC safe colour ticked?
Orange is not one of the NTSC safe colours for hilighting.