DVD Menu Issue

Ok excellent, and just as a further point, if you have the time;
I am a little confused as to which dimensions I should use when creating a DVD menu in photoshop to use in Encore, to begin with I made one in 1920x1080 as I didn't realise DVDs could not be made in full HD.

Ok, however even if I switch project settings to BluRay, and create a new menu the font is all pixelated when it looks really crisp in Photoshop. What do you think the issue is?
It depends. You might want to post a screenshot. If the font is part of highlights, it is only 2 bit color. Also, if there is a motion background, Encore will render to the default transcode settings (part of the project settings).
Encore limits the viewing size for preview, as it should, so you don't make the window so large it is blowing it up. You are looking at the preview and not the menu monitor window?

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DVD Menu/motion background issue

Every time I try to add a motion background to my DVD menu, the photoshop menu gets stretched horizontally. It looks fine when you add the video but when you preview and render it or burn it to DVD it stretches the menu. see screen shot.

Your menu shows as 1080x720; you say this is for DVD, but size would be wrong for DVD or Bluray.
Yes, you can get away with a variety of sizes; Encore will eventually transcode the menu to the project defaults. But using odd menu sizes makes problems more likely.
Make the menu itself the correct size. (Start with a library template for the project type - HD vs SD, standard vs wide.) Bring in a motion menu asset that is also the correct size. Don't let Encore do any resizing of those assets.

Cycling issue in DVD Menu

I have the DVD Menu looping at 15 seconds. At the end of the 15 seconds, the button dissapears for like half a second and reapppears...
I was wondering if there is a way to eliminate the choppiness as the DVD Menu recycles.
Advice would be greatly appreciated :-D

I second Max. If you look in the comercial releases you'll find this behaviour too.
If you have enough space in your disk you can create a longer looping (i.e. 60 secs). People uses to press a button before such times.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

PE3 DVD Menu Background video quality

Hi,
I'm creating a video for DVD and have got a 15 second AVI file I am using for the DVD menu background.
I've added it in the Create DVD section and it all works fine. However, when I view the created DVD the quality of the menu video is horrible. Lots of compression artifacts.
When I look at the VIDEO_TS folder the VOB file for the menu is about 6Mb.
If I create a movie using the same 15 second AVI as the main movie (and no DVD title) then the SAME 15 second AVI becomes a 15Mb VOB file and looks much better.
a) Why is PE3 using such low quality when compressing video files to use as DVD menu backgrounds?
b) Is it possible to override it and make it use the same quality it uses for the main movie?
Many thanks,
Chris
PS I'm using Premiere Elements 3.02 on Windows XP.

Hi Steve,
The 15 second DVD menu background AVI was created in Premiere Elements in a separate project. I created some Titles with Motion paths, layered them and then added some music.
I then used File->Export->Movie... to save it as a Microsoft DV AVI which I then imported into the main movie project.
I then selected Create DVD and dragged the movie into the Menu Background place.
The project seems to work fine. The only issue is that the generated VOB for the menu is only 6Mb and very poor quality whereas if I create a DVD from the separate project where I created the 15 second title movie the same movie clip becomes a 15Mb clip (and hence 2-3x the visual quality too).
Note that the rest of the movie is fine. It's just the menu background that appears to have been badly compressed.
Chris

DVD Menu distorted on playback and finished copy

The last several projects I have worked on in Premiere Elements 9 seem to have an issue with the DVD Menu being distorted on preview and playback as well as when I burn them to DVD . I noticed it several months ago on a short 20 minute video. The DVD Menu was distorted, fuzzy and the titles were barely legible. The video itself was just fine. It was a standard play DVD … nothing special.
On the next project with the above in mind, I checked the Project Settings and all looked as it should. I started editing and noticed playback was different when viewing clips in the timeline. While playing the clip, the video and graphics looked fuzzy until I stopped the playback. Then the image instantly sharpened and looked as good as I expected. I continued editing assuming I never noticed the difference in this before. I am still not sure whether this problem is related to the DVD Menu or not. Anyway, I created the DVD menu and AGAIN, the DVD Menu looked fine until it is previewed or played back. I even burned a copy to disc and the DVD Menu still looks as distorted and unclear as it does in the preview window.
This is the DVD Menu and honestly it looks worse than this screen shot improves upon it.
I would appreciate if anyone can provide some guidance on what the project settings should be or maybe the playback settings. I am using a PC with a 64-bit processor with Win 7 O/S and 4 GB of RAM.
If there are any other questions I need to answer, please ask them and I will provide a response as soon as possible.
Thanks again for any assistance provided.

So apparently the screen shots I posted in my two posts did not get added.
Here they are;
The project settings;
Thanks again,
Aaron

Opening projects that have a DVD menu.

I am unable to re-open projects that contain a DVD menu after I have correctly closed the project. Specifically, I have a series of MPEG videos (saved by Premiere Elements). They all open fine and run welel individually and collectively. I then put a DVD menu in with all the Chapter and Scene menu markers and then saved it and closed the project to come back to it at a later time. When I re-open I get the error "Sorry, a serious error has occured that requires Adobe Premiere elements to shut down . . ." and the whole program closes.
I have tried this twice with different videos and get the same result. I have never before tried to include a DVD menu in a Premiere 9 project. I have Windwos 7, 32 bit, plenty of memory and disc space, I have tried two different disc drives(both NTFS format) and reinstalled Premiere. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately, you have posted to the Tips & Tricks sub-forum, which is a repository for articles on how to do specific things in Premiere. Few general users stop by here, so there will be few, if any, "eyes" on your issue. Maybe our tireless MOD, Steve Grisetti, can move this out to the main forum, where many more users will see your post.
I do not recall anyone else having issues with Opening any Projects, with DVD/BD Menus and navigation. The addition of those elements should not affect the ability to Open such Projects, but in your case, they do. I cannot imagine what is happening to cause those Projects to fail to Open, but maybe others will have similar experiences, and can offer some help. If the post can be moved to the main forum, it stands a greater chance that those users will see it, and can help.
Good luck,
Hunt

Dvd menu problem

The dvd menus does not accept custom background images. I can place images in the dvd menu, but when the dvd is rendered all images are gone.
What is wrong with this software? This problem has been written by others, but it seems to be no solution to it.
My images are 720 * 576 pixels jpg.
I will be very happy if someone could give me a clue...

There were several Menu Sets in PrE 9, that did not work properly, when adding a custom background image. One valued contributor, A T Romano, did a full test, and listed each "problem" Menu Set. His report is in a thread, similar to yours on the Menu Sets.
It appears that Adobe corrected those Menu Sets in PrE 10, or at least I have not read of the issue with the latest version. I never did find out why some of those Library Menu Sets (they are just PSD's after all), did not work. It also seems that ATR found a workaround for those, but I cannot recall the details now. This is one of those THREADS, with ATR's comments, and there are several others too.
Good luck,
Hunt

Image Stretched in DVD Menu

Hey!
I'm having some issues with an image I made for the DVD menu. I created an image in Illustrator (720 x 480), saved it as a JPEG maximum quality and imported it into DVD Studio Pro. The DVD is in SD and is dimensions are (720 x 480). However, when I import the jpeg, the image is vertically stretched.
Does anyone know why this is happening? The dimensions I created the image in is the same as the dimensions of the DVD. Why would my image be stretched?
Thanks for the help!

Thanks Drew!
That Tiff suggestion brought me one step closer. The photo isn't stretched or squished anymore!
However, I'm still experiencing some issues.
So the DVD menu's display mode is set for 4:3 and the resolution is 720 x 480
The actual m2v video track's aspect ratio is also 4:3 and the resolution is 720 x 480
Once I import the Tiff file, the file's properties that show up in the window say
Format: Quicktime Picture
Width: 720
Height: 480
Layers: 0
I'm not sure what Quicktime Picture means but I'm sure it's irrelevant. What I'm getting to is, the size of the tiff is 720 x 480. However, when I put it into the dvd menu, the image is not squished or stretched but it doesn't fill up the whole screen. There's about (estimating) roughly 25 pixels of whitespace above and 25 px below the image. The image is centred on the DVD menu, but it doesnt fill up the whole screen.
When I simulate the DVD and hit the play button, once the video plays, it fills up the whole screen.
I don't understand why the Tiff doesn't fill up the whole DVD menu screen even though it is 720x480 and the DVD menu's properties are 4:3 and 720x480.
Do you have any other suggestions of what I can do?
Thanks a lot!

Pixilation of DVD menu

Hi Guys.
I’m having problems with the quality of my menu in encore. The original file was designed at 3000x2400 pixels and at 300 DPI. Once I import it into encore and a menu and render it out. It loses all its quality and becomes heavily distorted. Is there a quality setting within encore to adjust the final rendered output of the DVD menu?

As Jon points out, I find the scaling algorithms in any Adobe program, other than Photoshop, to be lacking. This is a case, where "bigger is NOT better." This ARTICLE, while addressing resizing still images for PrPro/PrE, applies to Encore, as well. It will give you tips on Batch re-sizing, but with one Menu, this is not really an issue, though might help in the future, should one have many stills, that need to be resized. I am a big fan of doing all of my image sizing, Menu creation, etc., in PS to exactly what I will need in my NLE, or my authoring application.
Hope that something here helps.
Good luck,
Hunt

Downloadable file on DVD menu?

My client would like to include his powerpoint presentation to be downloadable from the DVD menu of his video. Can this be done...or can I only put a link to a website that recipients can click on if viewing the DVD from their computer..where, in turn, the file coule be downloaded from.

It's possible, but to do so you need to use DVD@ccess or eDVD or Intellidisc.
With @ccess you simply use a button to go to a new menu and embed the url for the file into that menu. As your viewer arrives at the menu then the link is activated and if there is a viewer for the file it will launch over the top of your DVD player app and play back the show.
However, it is notoriously flaky on PCs - it may not even work at all... on Macs it is more reliable, but folks still find issues with it.
It's probably better to stick to using some text on a menu to let people know that the file is there for them to access manually.

Third party DVD player issues

Recently, I have come across an issue playing back DVD's with
VLC or XBMC. When I start playback of the DVD, it plays the first
segment ( the studio leader at the beginning) and will then just quit.
Apple's DVD Player works fine (quality is crappy and can't get surround
tracks out of it). Yet, when the DVD is ripped to the hard drive and
played from there, it is works just fine.
Also, this happens when the DVD is played back from an internal
or external drive.
Has anyone else seen this issue or do I have a unique problem?

My unit is a 2010 MacMini with HDMI. (see list)
The quality issues with Apple DVD player vs. other solutions are certain
scenes have a graininess akin to noise on old analog tv's that aren't
present on the other players and severe banding in gradients that
do not appear in other players, at least when they were working.
As far as the audio, selection in the DVD's menu itself just makes no difference.
Tried all the combinations of messing with Audio MIDI setup, third party
plugins like Perian, none of which work for Apple's DVD player. This was
the other reason for going to third party players, the higher quality video
was just a bonus.
Your point has been taken that it may be a software issue with the third party players.
Some update at some point may have broken them, be it OSX or their own.
I've beaten the Apple DVD player issue enough, let's just consider the topic dead.
The audio issues with it are spread over many, many threads across the web, with
no silver bullet solution to all.
As for BluRays, play them back all the time on my Mini. Either with
PowerDVD 10 in a Bootcamp windows7 when I want full DTS-HD or
TRUE HD decoding (decodes these to up to 24 bit,192kHz 7.1 since the
Mini chipset does not have the "protected" path for pass through of
these technologies) or a MakeMKV/XBMC combo in OSX. The OSX
solution doesn't give you the fancy menus and all or HD audio if present,
but if I only want to watch the movies it's fine. If I ever do want the other
nonsense, I just use PowerDVD 10. And please note this is BluRay disk
in player, not "ripped" or transcoded.
I do appreciate your help, but was primarily curious if others had issue
as well.
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2.1.2 update does not fix DVD Navigation issues :(

The FrontRow 2.1.2 update still doesn't fix the DVD navigation issues where sub menus on MANY DVDs are not navigable. Using the up / down keys on the keyboard or remote causes the Volume to change and not navigating the menus like it is supposed to.
This is a severe issue as it makes it impossible to play some DVDs or turn on the subtitles.

Yeah, I have experienced this as well. Ridiculous -- how could this issue not have come up in product testing by the time the software has reached version 2.0? The solution on Apple's end should be obvious. All 4 directional buttons must act only as directional commands when using a DVD, and all other functions (such as volume) can only be accessible by hitting MENU first to bring up a list of other options.
I'm all for simplicity, but this is the fault of the boneheaded 6-button Apple Remote. It requires their software to overload buttons with different commands depending on context, which is clearly an unacceptable limitation. They'll have to break down and roll out a proper remote with more discrete buttons one of these days and come to terms with the fact that shoehorning everything onto 6 buttons is not an elegant solution.

Is there dvd software out there that allows you to create a dvd menu in which the viewer can choose to play different sequences of the videos offered?

Is there dvd software out there that allows you to create a dvd menu in which the viewer can choose to play different sequences of the videos offered? It was described to me as a dvd matrix menu but I can't find anything like it for mac. The idea is that there are multiple videos on the dvd menu and you can choose to play "video A, then B, then C" or "video B, then C, then A", etc, in different orders each time. And it would play the sequence that you choose.

meghanica wrote:
I think that's on the right track but I'm wanting something that allows the viewer to choose the sequence when they're looking at the DVD menu. I only see how the creator of the DVD can make different sequences. It's a yoga tutorial DVD and we are wanting the viewer to be able to pick a sequence from the menu items as such: pick one of the 3 warm-up videos, then pick one of the 2 yoga practices and then pick 1 of the 3 cool-down videos and then the dvd will play the sequence of selected warm up, practice, then cool down. And it can be differently chosen every time the viewer uses the menu.
You can do this on a DVD with DVD Studio Pro.
DVD's have some very basic storage called SPRM/GPRM scripting IIRC.
There are a few tutorials around for DVDSP…
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/dvd_language_nattress.html
http://www.digitalproducer.com/article/DVD-Studio-Pro-Scripting-Part-4-28784
You use scripts to set values that are stored in a tiny amount of memory on the player & then have to use additional scripts to respond to the values set, so that at the end of a sequence it will jump to the one a user previously chosen.
Some things to consider…
DVD's have limits on the number of chapters & titles, you need to plan around that.
Some DVD players are terrible to navigate, the settings that a user selects will be forgotten when the player is powered off. Users will need to make the choices over & over, every time they use the DVD (computers may remember it - I haven't tested this in years).
You will also need to setup many variations of menus to be able to indicate what selections they chose.
It is not a trivial task, you may want to hire a programmer to set it all up.
Testing is also a lot of work - too many combinations can quickly cause issues for testing, different players can also do odd things too.
I have used scripting for basic, 'play all' or 'play chapter' menus where the video is encoded once on the DVD & the scripts will either play through, or simply play a chapter & return to the same menu.
You may find that it would be better to invest in setting up a website with this. On a custom site it would be possible for users to save a playlist or several, they can also share playlists etc, it would be more flexible & usable IMO.
See roaring apps for info on others who have used DVD Studio Pro with various OS's…
http://roaringapps.com/app/dvd-studio-pro …it looks like 10.8 may be the last OS to work correctly with DVDSP.
Other DVD authoring apps may be able to do GPRM scripting too, but you will have to search for them.
I think the registers are part of the DVD spec, so devices should support them, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video

DVD Quality issue

I have just completed the editting of a 2 hour stage production of Beauty & The Beast. I completed the work on my MacBook Pro, then copied the file to my PC, where I added menu markers and the DVD menu. When I burned it to the disk, the quality suffered terribly, to the point that it is unusable. Whether I view it on a blu-ray player and big screen TV or on the computer with a 21" monitor, the image is unacceptable. It is blurry and suffers from interlacing issues. I also tried burning to a folder and then copying that to a DVD. Again, when I play the disc, it is terrible. However, if I look at individual VOB files on the disc, there appears to be nothing wrong with the image. Any suggestions how to retain the quality?

When you say the individual vob files from the DISK look Ok on your computer this seems to indicate there is something wrong (or incompatible) with your player.
Do the disk VOB files look the same as you computer VOB files when viewed on your computer? If so then your computer burner might be out of alignment to the alignment of your player or it might be capable of more sensitive reading than your TV player.
I find I cant use PE9 to reliably burn Blue ray projects on a 4x speed Blue Ray blank disk because my burner is 8x and PE9 has no adjustment to slow the burning process down. I get nothing on some BD players and a perfect picture on others! So I have to use another program to burn.
Have you tried viewing the disk on someone else's player and TV?
A possibility is you have only partially 'burnt" the disk and it had dropped a lot of data because you did it too fast.
Try burning at a slower speed from a folder using a different burner program like imgburn or Power. (try Verbatum disks)
The indentations made by the data in the layer on a burnt disk can be smaller if written too fast and your DVD player may not be sensitive enough to play some of them. Some cheap DVD players are notorious for this.
Unless you have a double layer burner and disks, if you put 2hrs in a 1 hour disk you will end up with up to half the quality anyway depending on the detail of your pics which if it a stage show, will be very detailed. Try splitting into 2 projects
I presume you are using a new widescreen TV and not an old 4x3?
When you "added" menu markers and titles did you import the edited file into PE on a PC and use this to make the DVD? If so you are rendering the project twice.
I would try making the final DVD and markers using Sony Architect on your PC from your mac file. (free trial download) and burn slower.
I always thought early versions of PE made fuzzy titles but PE9 makes nice sharp titles letters.

DVD pixalation issue :(

Hi there,
I have been creating a DVD menu which blends into the film exactly. You click on a Polaroid in the menu (made in photoshop) and the video start by zooming into the Polaroid.
My issue is pixilation of the menu. The photo's which were taken from still on FCP 7 and imported into a video project in photoshop (HDV 1080p 1440 x 1080) are pixilated when put into DVD menu then when burnt to DVD are more pixalated. I'm using a motion.mov now which looks a bit better but the angled polaroids are jagged. The motion is not pixalated which shows the same photo, So i am stumped as to why this is happening. Anyidea?

To start off with, DVDs are SD only. So having a 1440x1080 image is a complete waste of time. You need to be working at PAL resolution 720x576. Second, DVD SP does a bad job of scaling graphics, so you are best off starting in Photoshop at the correct resolution.
In Photoshop open a New file. When the dialog box opens up choose the proper Preset that you want (either standard PAL or PAL widescreen.)

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