DVDA2 Question

xjerx wrote on 2/2/2006, 9:35 AM
I know this is the vegas forum...but the ol DVDA forum isn't quite as populated as vegas.

My problem is...I have a "menu animation" that I created first in Photoshop...created the layers and added the text ("play video, etc") Then I took that PSD into vegas and added some video to it. ...Rendered that as DVDA mpeg 2....placed as background media in DVDA2 for the main menu....OH NO!!! the text looks "blocky" like it is being viewed in draft mode. When I preview the dvd it looks fine on the computer...however...when i burn the DVD and watch on tv...the text looks blocky. Why is it doing that? I'm using the same kind of menu for the scene selection, but it doesn't have video overlay...so i'm just using a PSD instead of MPEG...and the text on the scene selections look fine. So is the mpeg the problem? I tried sticking an AVI file in there instead..but it still looks bad. Any suggestions?

Hope all that makes sense.

Thanks
Jeremiah

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jetdv wrote on 2/2/2006, 9:50 AM
You do NOT want to render your menus as MPEG2 as they will the be RE-rendered as MPEG2. Instead, give it DV-AVI for your menus so you only get a single MPEG2 compression.

In DVDA3 a new option was added to render the menus as progressive instead of interlaced. This has helped with a lot of the "blocky text" issues.