What are the ideal dimensions

Hi. I have just wasted a whole weekend making an animated menu for my DVD. I made it in Livetype and FCP with the dimensions of 1024 x 567 thinking this would be ok for a 16 by 9 pal menu. Unfortunately the animated captions once in DVD SP looked scaggy because I think that I should have made everything 720 x 576 (anamorphic). Is this the case?
Considering I'll be encoding the menu seq in compressor when I've finished making it, what should the dimensions be when I originally start making it?

No I think you should be OK with a 1024 x 576 starting point. You could then export that from FCP as a 720x576 Quicktime and encode it as 16x9 Anamorphic... the fact it looks scaggy could be for other reasons... Codec used to export Quicktime, encoding settings in Compressor etc

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What you have there is a mess.
NTSC pixels are never square.
NTSC is 720x486, even when it is Anamorphic.
You shouldn't be using an already letterboxed master to make an Anamorphic version. Get the master that was made before the letterboxing stage.
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