I found this problem like somebody has said earlier, about the TV screen "only retaining one of the fields from the menu frame, and duplicating it on every second line". That means only 1/2 resolution horizontally, thus bad text & background image quality. The underlines simply disappear.
I've experimented and found that, the text & image quality only turns bad AFTER THE TIME OF THE MENU LENGTH. I found that because I created a 30-second menu, and the text & image quality turned bad from the 31th seconds entering the menu screen. I then set different menu at different menu length, and it's still true. Bad text & image quality after the menu length, looped or not.
I then rendered the still image into a 5-second mpeg2 file with VV4, and then used this mpeg2 file as the menu's background, looped. The text & image quality was good during the looping, but it'd still turn bad between the loops, resulting in "5-second good - 1-second bad - 5-second good - 1-second bad...", which is still not acceptable.
This is the furtherst I could go tonight, along with 12 wasted test-burned DVDs and 3 hours of experimenting. I hope someone can find a clue here and lead us out of this bitter sea of beta-testing a released product.
If not, please be so kind as to give me some advice, to replace DVD Architect. I didn't have any problem creating still menu with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 SE. The text and image quality is very good, no problem at all, like any other commercial DVD played on the very same player. Too bad it can't do what DVDA can, and vice versa.
I've experimented and found that, the text & image quality only turns bad AFTER THE TIME OF THE MENU LENGTH. I found that because I created a 30-second menu, and the text & image quality turned bad from the 31th seconds entering the menu screen. I then set different menu at different menu length, and it's still true. Bad text & image quality after the menu length, looped or not.
I then rendered the still image into a 5-second mpeg2 file with VV4, and then used this mpeg2 file as the menu's background, looped. The text & image quality was good during the looping, but it'd still turn bad between the loops, resulting in "5-second good - 1-second bad - 5-second good - 1-second bad...", which is still not acceptable.
This is the furtherst I could go tonight, along with 12 wasted test-burned DVDs and 3 hours of experimenting. I hope someone can find a clue here and lead us out of this bitter sea of beta-testing a released product.
If not, please be so kind as to give me some advice, to replace DVD Architect. I didn't have any problem creating still menu with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2 SE. The text and image quality is very good, no problem at all, like any other commercial DVD played on the very same player. Too bad it can't do what DVDA can, and vice versa.