Encore menu sizing

Hi,
I'm starting to build my menu in Photoshop for Encore. My final output will be on a
standard DVD. I'm following a tutorial I found online:
http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=25879
but it says the standard size of an NTSC DVD is 720x534?
I thought the standard size was 720x480?
Am I wrong or am I reading the wrong information?
Thanks in advance!

The article is correct but a little bit dated.
DVD menus on NTSC video systems are 720x480 with a pixel aspect ratio of .9, which is a non-square pixel. If you have Photoshop CS or later, you can use their new document template and choose DV-NTSC 4:3 and this is what you will get.
In earlier versions of Photoshop, there was only one pixel aspect ratio: square pixels, also known as a pixel aspect ratio of 1.0. In these earlier versions of Photoshop, a DVD menu would indeed by 720x534, and when Encore created a DVD is squished the menus down so they had non-square pixel aspect ratios as required.
If you're working with later versions of Photoshop and Encore, it's best to stick with 720x480 with a PAR of .9 for 4:3 menus.

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