Odd PAL Transition Occurrence

Authored a DVD in NTSC (based in Canada) with main menu, series of sub-menus and then video footage activated from the sub-menus. Pretty basic stuff. Worked out fine when put to disk and presents well on TV.
However, when trying to make a PAL version of the same content with the same layout, an interesting 'glitch' of some sort occurs. In Simulator mode, everything appears fine in the main menu. Then, when I make a selection, the displayed images gets squished vertically, the transition occurs and then it's back to the full screen for the sub-menu. Selecting the options available from there, the same thing happens. Squat screen, transition, then regular screen.
Any thoughts?
I should note that I have not burned this PAL version to DVD, so I don't know how it well presents on TV. Perhpas I should have done that before posting this. Sorry.

How did you make the PAL version of the DVDSP project? Did you start it from scratch or copy the NTSC project and remove all the NTSC video assets?
Also, what type of transition are you using? is it a built in DVDSP transition or a video asset you have assigned yourself?
it sounds like you've copied the NTSC project and changed it to being PAL and thought the menus have been resized correctly the transition has got screwed up. You could go through and remove the transition (select Not Set). Then go back in and set it up again, that might sort it out.

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