Okay, I know what you're going to say- check the quality setting in preferences.
Just to get that off your mind, it's set to "best quality."
Alright, now to the problem: my iDVD menu looks great in iDVD but as soon as it is burned to a disc, the title and chapter menus (all text on the screen) is so pixelated it is almost unreadable. I have done a lot of tinkering with this menu (none of the setting came with the 'theme,' etc.) so perhaps that is sucking up rescources. The interesting thing is that all the text made in iMovie (within the movie files themselves) is crystal clear and even the video in the background of the menu renders Ok. (not superb, but I don't think there's a huge loss of quality, it just wasn't that high resolution to begin with)
Ok, now the technical specs: I'm working with iDVD 6.0.3 and iMovie was made in latest version 5, on a new imac running Mac OS 10.4.8, with plenty of memory (2.16 GHz intal processor and 2 GB RAM with storage space of 465.44 GB capacity). Using the internal superdrive DVD burner.
Ok, if you have any further questions, just ask.
EDIT- I just made a disk image of the project and it is blurry as well- this lets me know the problem is with the encoding/rendering stage as opposed to the burning stage. I'll keep at it.
I'm just about to do a test menu to see if all menus burn like this, or only my complicated one.
I appreciate your time and help!
Amy (a college student whose bosses like a nice clean design)
Just to get that off your mind, it's set to "best quality."
Alright, now to the problem: my iDVD menu looks great in iDVD but as soon as it is burned to a disc, the title and chapter menus (all text on the screen) is so pixelated it is almost unreadable. I have done a lot of tinkering with this menu (none of the setting came with the 'theme,' etc.) so perhaps that is sucking up rescources. The interesting thing is that all the text made in iMovie (within the movie files themselves) is crystal clear and even the video in the background of the menu renders Ok. (not superb, but I don't think there's a huge loss of quality, it just wasn't that high resolution to begin with)
Ok, now the technical specs: I'm working with iDVD 6.0.3 and iMovie was made in latest version 5, on a new imac running Mac OS 10.4.8, with plenty of memory (2.16 GHz intal processor and 2 GB RAM with storage space of 465.44 GB capacity). Using the internal superdrive DVD burner.
Ok, if you have any further questions, just ask.
EDIT- I just made a disk image of the project and it is blurry as well- this lets me know the problem is with the encoding/rendering stage as opposed to the burning stage. I'll keep at it.
I'm just about to do a test menu to see if all menus burn like this, or only my complicated one.
I appreciate your time and help!
Amy (a college student whose bosses like a nice clean design)