Hi all,
I've been reading in the forums about the poor quality of menus in DVD Arch. I had not noticed this until my current project. I'm looking for a potential way around this.
My main menu background is an MPEG2 done in Vegas 5 and I'm using DVD arch 2. When I render in vegas to MPEG 2 the video looks great. There is a background picture with several high quality still that do some transitions. When I add it to the background in DVD 2 arch and preview it looks great. Very high quality, very crisp.
When to the prepare video and bring it up is looks terrible. Blocky pictures, Blocky lettering. You don't notice is much on the computer with a small window in the media player but if you go full screen on the computer or on a TV Screen it is very noticable, especially given that the actually video (which includes still and lettering as well) looks outstanding.
I'm guessing that this is because the menu gets rerendered in the prep phase and my video does not. I used the DVD2 Arch template when I did the render to MPEG 2 in vegas (just like the main video). The main video does not need to be re rendered by DVDarch. Only the one on the menu does (the audio is fine).
Does DVD2 always re reneder (recompress?) the menu video / backgrounds? Is there a format that i can render to that will correct this issue (I tried going to AVI format in hopes that with only one render in DVD arch it would look fine. Still does not).
I've seen this as an issue in these forums, but no resolution. Is this just a fact of life for DVD2 Arch (so i should buy / use different software) or is there a work around?
Any help would be great.
I've been reading in the forums about the poor quality of menus in DVD Arch. I had not noticed this until my current project. I'm looking for a potential way around this.
My main menu background is an MPEG2 done in Vegas 5 and I'm using DVD arch 2. When I render in vegas to MPEG 2 the video looks great. There is a background picture with several high quality still that do some transitions. When I add it to the background in DVD 2 arch and preview it looks great. Very high quality, very crisp.
When to the prepare video and bring it up is looks terrible. Blocky pictures, Blocky lettering. You don't notice is much on the computer with a small window in the media player but if you go full screen on the computer or on a TV Screen it is very noticable, especially given that the actually video (which includes still and lettering as well) looks outstanding.
I'm guessing that this is because the menu gets rerendered in the prep phase and my video does not. I used the DVD2 Arch template when I did the render to MPEG 2 in vegas (just like the main video). The main video does not need to be re rendered by DVDarch. Only the one on the menu does (the audio is fine).
Does DVD2 always re reneder (recompress?) the menu video / backgrounds? Is there a format that i can render to that will correct this issue (I tried going to AVI format in hopes that with only one render in DVD arch it would look fine. Still does not).
I've seen this as an issue in these forums, but no resolution. Is this just a fact of life for DVD2 Arch (so i should buy / use different software) or is there a work around?
Any help would be great.