What's the best PAL SD Menu and overlay formats for DVD Studio Pro

TIFF is better than .png.

Solid red will often cause problems in video, particularly on dark backgrounds.

Do a search here for "pixel rise time" for more info.

What Photoshop creates as white is way over what video can handle. It should be no more than 90% white.

And, as Nick notes, pure red is a particularly difficult color for video.

Bold, san-serif fonts work best. The fussier the type, the harder the video has to work to display it.

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Yes. The DVD player is still sending out a broadcast signal with all the limitations of that format.

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People generally let Adobe Photoshop operate in a sRGB, Adobe 1988, CMYK or LAB color spaces. NTSC rec 601 and 709 are much much smaller, more limited spaces.

The greater range of the print world spaces means there are wide areas that are outside the range of video. These tend to be very bright and highly saturated colors. In order to display colors accurately on a video (TV) monitor, the colors have to be pulled in from the extremes to within what the standard knows how to handle.

I believe Photoshop has the option of setting up the color space to NTSC 601 or 709 legal colors. This may help.

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One additional point. Bring in a still image and check it out for "legality" using FCP's scope functions.

There has been some discussion about how accurate they are vis a vis external scopes, but, the FCP ones will show you when the image is way out of bounds.

Don't know what video scopes are and/or how to use them? Think of this as a learning moment. Make the most of it.

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