Low Text Quality on Menus

Nathan_Buchanan

Newbie Joined: May 05, 2015 15:42 Messages: 7 Offline

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May 05, 2015 15:49

I am using Power Director exclusivly for the DVD Authoring features. So far I basicly like this feature. Ther are things I would change but it works for what I need at this point.

However, I have noticed that the resolution of the Menu Screens and more specificly the quality of the text being added is really bad. It is really pixilized and blury to me. Seems like it should be crisper to me.

Anyone else have this issue or know a way to change this.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at May 05. 2015 15:50

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

May 05, 2015 16:17

You are probably talking about the preview quality you see on the screen. Change it from low to to full HD and look at the preview window again.

Let us know if this helps.

Nathan_Buchanan

Newbie Joined: May 05, 2015 15:42 Messages: 7 Offline

May 05, 2015 16:39

Quote: You are probably talking about the preview quality you see on the screen. Change it from low to to full HD and look at the preview window again.

Let us know if this helps.

Thanks for the reply. Actually im talking about the final product. After buring a DVD the quality is still really low and pixilated. I am burning normal DVD. Not Bluray etc.

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

May 05, 2015 22:38

Can you provide a screenshot of the menu of the dvd with the bad text for us to see.

Nathan_Buchanan

Newbie Joined: May 05, 2015 15:42 Messages: 7 Offline

May 06, 2015 08:14

Sure, the first one is pixel for pixel actual size and the second is zoomed in.

The text is stationary is both instances with no effects except border.

Screen shot 1

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

May 06, 2015 12:21

The root menu looks fine to me. You can change the text font and size on the root menu and reposition it before burning a DVD. The Play and Scenes are active buttons and must be changed in menu designer if desired. I did look at the faimission.org video and think that it is well done. Let others here chime in and may suggest any changes. I am impressed that you want to put it on dvd.

Hope you all great success.

Nathan_Buchanan

Newbie Joined: May 05, 2015 15:42 Messages: 7 Offline

May 06, 2015 12:47

Thanks for the reply and for the compliment on the film itself.

I might need to go look at some other produced DVD menus. Maybe I am just not used to looking at text on DVD menus any more since I haven't watched one in ages but it just seems like this text resolution is poor.

Does anyone else see that?

Salamand3r

Newbie Joined: Apr 14, 2015 20:41 Messages: 19 Offline

May 06, 2015 20:57

It looks like DVD quality to me to be perfectly frank.

DVD are ancient by modern digital standards, with low resolution and a lossy video codec from the dark ages of codecs. I think you may just have gotten used to modern media. Happened to me recently when I tried to watch the DVD of Aliens. It was almost shocking how bad it was compared to the BluRay, and Alien was actually a decent transfer - now, the Matrix, that looks truly awful on DVD. Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 case | Ultra X4 850W PSU | Asrock Fatal1ty Killer 990FX | AMD FX8320@4.7gHz | Coolermaster Nepton 240m | 2x HIS R9 290 GPUs | 24gb G.Skill Ripjaws 1600mHz DDR3 | OCZ ARC 100 480gb SSD | Various WD Black and Seagate drives to the tune of ~20tb | I have been building systems for over 16 years, however my opinions can be and sometimes are incorrect. Please, call me out if I say something asinine.