DVD Studio 4 templates

I've been using DSP2 for a long time, basically one template over and over for wedding dvd's.
Just upgraded to 4. The same template, when I drag the asset into the "full motion" clips that play on the menu, the clip looks really light and faded (it's sepia tone to begin wtih, but the old template would play the clips with nice contrast). Is there an opacity setting for these clips that play on the menu? Not sure why the default is so light and washed out in the new one.
Thanks in advance

Never saw DVDSP2
3 and 4 have very similar templates, so
perhaps the opacity changed from what
you're used to with that
You can try and re-create the template
from scratch in DVDSP's built-in
Overlay Menus if you have time
cheers

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