IDVD Menus fuzzy Help!!

Hi,
I know this question has been asked for years but I still have not managed to find an answer that suits my circumstance.
I am creating a wedding DVD of our wedding pictures.
I have created themed slide shows in Apeture 3 and exported them as HD movie files. I imported them to iMovie as I want them all to run concurrently and placed chapter marker and exported it to HD setting.
Opened iDVD and started a new project picked a theme and then placed the iMovie project into iDVD... all works chapter markers came up and it will play through the whole movie.
Edited the menus added pictures and music into the hotspots and all looks great preview looks exactly what I want.
Created a disc image as I want to burn mulitple copies and check quality.
Movie looks great no loss in quality chapters all work, but.... The themed iDVD menus look awful!!!.... All the text is fuzzy the pictures in the hotspots are barely recognisable and is a total let down.
The iDVD theme is perfect for what I want so I would love to use this but it just looks so bad (again actual important bit the movie looks great). I even shrunk the window to actual size and no improvement. I have set the codec to Professional quality and everything is still under 3Gb.
Please help I have been on this for a month and no improvement and have a lot of friend and family waiting on this
Regards
Jon.

Hi
Pause in middle - two thoughts
• SlideShow in iDVD has a limit of 99 Photos per show - exceeding this and strange problem arises
• DL-DVD - when changing from one layer to the second layer can sometimes result in a Paus
First one - I assemble my SlideShows in other programs eg
• iMovie up to HD6
• FinalCut any version
• FotoMagico™
• iMovie'08 or 09 or 11 - will work but the sharpness will lose 50% as they deliver only every second line over to iDVD how ever one tries to do it.
I never in any iMovie version - use Share to iDVD - I do
iMoviw up to HD6 - Just close it and in iDVD import the movie project
iM'08 - 11 - Share to Media Browser and in Large - in iDVD import from it's Media Browser
Yours Bengt W

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