Made a menu with the top button off screen

[trolltuning]

I authored a DVD from a VHS tape. I photographed the cover as there were a lot of names with foreign characters and used it as a menu 720 by 480. The menu has 2 columns of titles -24 in all that I used as buttons. The top 2 buttons are cut off in the TV screen.
Any way to modify it -maybe add a border or change the aspect ratio so I can make that top button visible without having to totally redo the menu?

[Taelon]

I guess it depends on what you authored it with, is it for PAL or NTSC, the Aspect Ratio, what the background image is, etc.

For starters you should consider using a template that shows the safe area for placing text and buttons, you can download one for NTSC at Trilights Guides (http://dvdguides.trilight.net/) in the Menu Creation section.

Generally speaking when you create a Menu for NTSC @ 4:3 AR, your image should be 720x540 and when you're finished laying it out and have your subpicture you would resize them to 720x480. So you could take your current background image and subpic and resize them to 720x540, move things around or add your border area to get within the 'safe zone' and then resize them back to 720x480, mux them back together and go from there.

[trolltuning]

I authored it with Liquid's DVDauthorGui. It is NTSC. The background is just yellow background with the 24 names on it, Each one with an underline as the button is activated. The names and background all came from the same jpeg-the photo of the VHS case (so it's all together).
I'm assuming that with your method I'd have to move every button? I'm probably dreaming but I was hoping to avoid that.
Thanks for the idea about the template.

[Taelon]

You should be able to resize it to get it within the safe area then fill in the top with yellow, but you'll have to resize or at least reposition the subpicture(s) also. Look at goonix's sticky topic for info on how to demux and remux the subpics.