DVD Studio Pro Tip o' the Day 5/14

As we all know, televisions use rectangular pixels and computers use square pixels to show images. To compensate for this, when we make DVD menu graphics in Photoshop or whatever program you use, the dimensions of the graphic have to be adjusted to 720x534 (for standard def). For Photoshop users, this only affects version 7 or earlier. The CS, CS2 and CS3 packages allow you to use a different pixel aspect ratio for previewing your file. Other graphics generators may not have such an option. So if you wonder why your graphics look off in DVDSP, and you are not using Photoshop from the Creative Suite series, try changing your image size to 720x534.