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The stamp or images on the Arabesk4 chapter menu look horrible after I create the DVD and view the chapter menu on a TV.
Am I doing something wrong in version 4? They looked poor quality in version 3 but not this bad. I have created 6 square chapter stamps/icons on the chapter menu page.(large Box) Like I did in arabesk 3, I would cue up the desired image in the scene bin before I went into (finish)DVDArabesk and that would be my image inside the stamp on the chapter menu. I'm using the same method now in ver4 but the still image inside the square stamp is extremely poor/pixilated. Any advice would be much appreciated.

I would suggest using animated stamps to improve the video quality.

Stills use a single field which has less resolution, animated will use frames for full resolution.

It's fine if you want it to be a still, just take the frame you want and use Still Scene, Full Frame to create the stamp out to about fifty seconds to simulate a Still.

Same with menu backgrounds to improve not just the background, but the look of Titles on them.

Thanks Tim, I will try that method for both the chap and main menu.
Another text quality issue is on the main menu. I normaly create a animated PIP scene always with a blackbackground w/titles and I create a scene of it and use it as the main menu in arabesk. I purposely leave space on the bottom of the scene so I can add in the words "Press Play or Enter" when I'm editing the menu in Arabesk. I have this phrase turn a bright color via the "activation color feature". When u watch back the DVD and your looking at the menu the fonts created in arabesk are so distorted and unacceptably poor. Any better workarounds or methods?

Animated backgrounds should improve all fonts.

Your Selection and Activation colors could also degrade the looks if the contrast between versions is too high, try using less contrasty colors and/or use the Alpha channel to tamp down the intensity.