16:9 menu hassles

[easy2Bcheesy]

I have just received the animations for a beautiful new menu system I am working on for a new DVD project. This is the first anamorphic 16:9 menu system I've authored.

Everything works beautifully in 16:9. Except for one thing.

If I switch my DVD player to either of the 4:3 display options, the location of my sub-menus changes wildly. It's as if the tracking of the sub-layer when overlaid, has been shifted vertically.

Ideas on what the problem may be? When creating sub-layers for anamorphic menus, is a different file required?

[auenf]

not changing wildly, i think if you make your button areas twice the size, it will work, or make separate 4:3 and 16:9 menus with command sequence.

ive only done two 16:9 dvds at work, and cause im using DVDVirtuoso, i have to make the menu aspect the same as the VTS, and i noticed after we had made a couple a thousand of each the button hilites work on 16:9 tv, but not on a 4:3 ps OR lb tv, but im pretty sure making the button heights should fix it (no rw drive at work yet, so i dont want to waste a DVD-R(A) disc just to try ;) )

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[easy2Bcheesy]

I'll read the Spruce manual when I get to work on Monday. Now it comes to it I had to change the vertical offset by -31 to make my sub-layer fit while authoring, which I thought very odd at the time.

The button area highlighted is right.. it's just that the sub-layer is in the wrong position... Hmmmmmmmmmm... hope I don't need to make two sub-layers... if I do, I will have to construct my entire menu system in Movies rather than Menus. I don't mind doing this, but it will be a lot more flexible if I can use the menus (jumping to menus with specific buttons highlighted etc)

Doing two menu systems is not an option - I'm famous for my memory intensive menus, there'll be no rooms for any other footage!!


>>> UPDATE: I used buttons over video in my original project, not menus. I think this may be the problem. I'll try to knock up a quick menu system and see what happens, but I think that staying well clear of buttons over video will probably sort this problem out.

[Zeppeliner]

I had that happen to me in Maestro.. subpictures was stretched vertically, and for some reason I could NOT change the menu aspect from 4:3 to 16:9 within Maestro - I fixed that with IfoEdit but it didn't help. This happened the only time I have tried assembling a project using manual vts allocation. I ended up redoing the whole of it, the menus set fine to 16:9 - and then the subpictures were fine.

[easy2Bcheesy]

Case closed - I was using buttons over video rather than menus and when this happens, the position of the subtitle layer is shifted depending on the configuration of the DVD player - 4:3 p/s, 4:3 letterbox or 16:9 wide.

I stuck everything into menus, set them to 16:9, and everything worked fine.

[auenf]

ok, so the problem im getting in DVDVirtuoso 2.5 at work is a bug, i guess ill have to try it in maestro at home and see what happens...

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[easy2Bcheesy]

Everything worked fine, but this was in a non-Wares Conductor+PowerPack...