Hey, Just a quick question for you guys. I have already encoded my dvd files, but the menu that i created with them just plays right to the bottom of the lowest menu automatically when i try to play it. I would like to have a 3rd party program to create a menu, what do you suggest? Or is it possible to fix the menus that have been created already?
The only menu creation program I have used more than once, is 'DVDAuthor GUI'. There is a minor learning curve to it, but it lets you design the menu from scratch. It has the advantage of being able to save the menu project and edit it as required. The actual DVD files have to be in elementary stream format, which means the main title of the DVD has to be demuxed using the likes of 'VOBEdit' http://download.videohelp.com/liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl Other menu programs are 'TitleWriter' and 'DVD Styler', they offer a friendlier approach as far as assembling the menu components, but I haven't them much.
Works well - but with Gotchas. You are working in square pixels at 720x540, so when compiling to an NTSC DVD you are losing vertical resolution from 540 lines to 480 lines. If you are using Line Art, this is a problem. Use PhotoShop CS onwards, and there is even a template. Pixel Aspect Ratio will be correct. Background image is a full-colour 24-bit BMP file for DVD-Lab Pro. SubPicture Highlight (button shape) is a 4-colour, indexed delimited TIFF or BMP file. In the menu editor, import external background. Then import external subpicture. Then show external subpicture, draw button rectangle using Group Hotspot option. Set colours in the Map. Done.
