How to create 720p blu-ray menu

I figured something out and thought it would be worth sharing.
I'm using Encore CS5 to author a blu-ray but had trouble authoring a menu that wasn't 1080p. The entire footage of my disc is 720p @ 60fps and so I'd like the main menu, which is supposed to be simply text/buttons over a looping video that is also 720p @ 60, to match the rest of the disc. But everything I tried resulted in a 1080p menu. Even if I started with a blank HD menu, the resulting menu size was 1920x1080. This resulted in my main menu looping video getting stretched and re-encoded, and reduced to 30fps as well.
The solution was to create a 1280x720 blank photoshop file, then Import As -> Menu...in the Project panel. That provided me with a 1280x720 blank menu that stayed that way when I was building it.

BR does not do 1080p only in 24p.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/421178?tstart=0

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