DVD SP4 resizes a video clip

Hi all,
I've created a video clip at custom size of 720x320 to use in DVD menu. I've
applied it to
drop zone. To my surprise it didn't fit into the menu design. The clip's info in
DVD SP has
shown a size of 720x536 (it's a PAL project), so DVD SP has resized the clip to
the PAL native
size automatically! Does anybody know if there is a way to prevent DVD SP of
doing that?
Thanks in advance.
Andrey
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi Audrey - welcome to the discussions.
Try re-sizing that drop zone - DVDSP should maintain the correct aspect ratio for the clip unless you go wildly out of the normal range, in which case it will clip the edges.
The other obvious win would be to composite the entire menu background using FCP or Motion or After Effects and get the footage exactly as you want it before bringing it in to DVDSP.
But no - I don't think you can prevent DVDSP behaving in the way it did for you.

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