Premiere Elements 11 - Can't read my menu/scenes under preview

When I preview the menu the menu and scenes show up for about 5 seconds and then they become unreadable.  They are blurry.  When I burn DVD you can see the writing for the menu/scenes but can't tell what it says.

Jodie
Thanks for the follow up.
No. Did they charge you $40 for that "corrupt menu" diagnosis?
What did you purchase,  the boxed packaging with installation disc or downloaded installation files from Adobe?
In the past, blurry DVD-VIDEO on DVD disc (the menus and the video) was periodically corrected by an uninstall reinstall of the program. But, I had never run into a situation where menus were signaled out leaving the video portion OK in those particular cases.
Be that as it may, let us get to work on the audio situation. What is the duration of the audio file that you are adding to the menu? And which menu..also main and scene or audio just to main? Is this happening with all audio or just this file?
This is where I am heading on this to rule in or out. No matter how great the duration of the audio that you add to those menus, you are only going to get 30 seconds looping. Recently a user questioned why only 13.4 sec instead of 30 for the Christmas menu. That was explained in my blog post
http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/
The point to my mention of 30 sec looping max, is the possibility that the addition of audio with a long duration may be creating the issue.
Another factor is format. Are you working with, .mp3 or .wav for the audio addition to the menu?
Bottom lines for troubleshooting purposes at this time
a. try to use an audio with shorter duration...closer to 30 seconds
b. if you are using .mp3 audio, convert it to .wav in iTunes or other.
More later.
Looking forward to your follow up.
Thanks.
ATR

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