Help with SubPictures

[daemon22]

I need help with making subpictures to dvd.

I managed to extract the dvd backgrund, make a new menu withe my custum background and subpicture and the replace the original one with it. (using Photoshop, DVDMaestr, Voblanker).

the custom menu works fine on 16x9 tv but on 4x3 the subpictures are scrambled.

is ther a way to make a menu that can show both ways?

thanx alot in advance!!!

[mats.hogberg]

A 4:3 menu should work on both 16:9 and 4:3.

/Mats

[manono]

Yeah, sounds like you made a 16:9 menu. You'll have to make 2 sets of sub-pics, one for 16:9 and the other for 4:3. In the Rendering Tab of MaestroSBT is a choice for both 16:9 correction and 4:3 correction. You'll have to make sets for both. After that I'm not real sure what you have to do, as I make them for 4:3. You might check a few DVDs you have with 16:9 menus. A couple I just checked are set for Automatic Pan And Scan.

[daemon22]

I tryed to make the menu agin this time 4x3 but the subpictures still works on widescreen menu only when i change the dvd to pan & scan i cannot see the subpictures.

If i need to make 2 menus then please tell me how to do it???


Thanx alot in advance

[manono]

Hi-

tryed to make the menu agin this time 4x3 but the subpictures still works on widescreen menu only when i change the dvd to pan & scan i cannot see the subpictures.

If you make a 4:3 menu, then you only need to make 4:3 subpics, and it should work equally well on both 16:9 and 4:3 TV sets. The DVD player for the 16:9 TV set will be set for its normal 16:9. Although you can make 2 different sets of menus, one for each type of TV set, it's not necessary. Criterion does it these days for their widescreen films, but they're the only DVD production company I'm aware of that does it. All the rest usually make widescreen 16:9 menus, often even if the film itself is fullscreen. They have 2 sets of sub pics, and in Domain Stream Attributes, as I mentioned earlier, it's set for 16:9 and Automatic Pan And Scan. Also as I mentioned earlier, I don't really know how to make 16:9 menus.

If you're trying to make a 4:3 menu, and it doesn't play correctly on a 16:9 TV set, then you're doing something fundamentally wrong. My suggestion is to use your menu backgrounds in a free DVD Authoring app, like maybe DVDAuthorGUI, and then replace what you want after you get it working for both 16:9 and 4:3 TV sets.

...when i change the dvd to pan & scan i cannot see the subpictures.

If you're saying you changed the DVD player to Pan And Scan, that's not what I meant. That shouldn't be necessary anyway. I meant to set the Domain Stream Attribute (in PGCEdit or IFOEdit) to Automatic Pan And Scan. That's only if you made a 16:9 menu with 2 sets of sub pics.