BIG Encore problem - Interactive dvd based on menus - blurry menus

Hi, I am making a DVD based on clickable menus. The idea is to create a DVD portfolio, where the user can click through different screens, a lot of them with images, some only videos. I am creating the menus in photoshop - using rather small text. When the menus are imported to Encore, they look ok in the editing mode, but in the preview, the text gets blurry and unreadable - this also happens to some extent with the bigger text, edges also get very pixeled. The format I am working with is 1280 x 720, 72dpi (but i guess the dpi doesn't matter when it's video), RGB color, PAL widescreen square pixel... I have tried a lot of different formats, both bigger and smaller, but it doesn't get better. I have tried to do this in so many different ways now, but simply cannot find a solution - which seems strange to me, as I have seen DVD menus before with small type, without it being blurry (for example describing different episodes of a TV show) - Is there another program that would be better for this project, as I am also worried that the images will be very pixelated... I also tried to export the project, but it is still blurry. Another problem I have, is that the highlights of text buttons appear a few pixels left of the original button - I used the correct layer names, and only text in one color. the highlight is white. I hope someone can help me with this!
First image: a dummy menu in encore (editing mode)
Second image: the menu exported as dvd (folder)

Welcome to the forum.
Why are you starting with 1280x720 PS files when you are trying to create a 720x576 PAL SD DVD? The downscaling alone would account for your quality loss.
-Jeff

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Bonjour
J'ai crée 2 diaporamas que j'ai ajouté à mon projet encore. Mais lorsque j'exporte mon projet je perds en qualité.
Si quelqu’un a des astuces sachant que je n'utilise qu'un car du DVD.
Merci d’avance

Il y a moins de 20 minute de vidéo, 1go sur 4 est utiliser lors de l'exportation, j'aimerai pouvoir augmenter la qualité lors de l'exportation pour être au plus près de la qualiter des vidéos de mon projet qui sont en HD.

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I've never used Encore, but is it the Adobe tool I should use to make an interactive DVD?
I need controls like, pause, loop, start, stop. Those kind of controls.
I particularly need to make my animations have a control that allows the speaker of the presentation to loop the animation indefinitely until he wants to continue with his talk.

No. You asked in what I think is the right place: Director.

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