User Guide

48 Chapter 4, Preparing Assets
Preparing Subpicture Assets
A menu consists of a motion or still video background image with a subpicture and highlight
layer. When creating a menu subpicture, the following guidelines must be observed:
• Create subtitle images in a graphics program such as Photoshop.
• Use a maximum of four colors.
• Disable anti-aliasing.
• Create subpicture lettering in pure black, red, or blue, where the RGB values are set 255.
The background color should be white.
• Save the subpicture in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCD (Photo CD), PICT, PSD (Photoshop), SGI,
TIFF, TGA (Targa), or YUV format.
• A subpicture can be any size (horizontal and vertical resolution) as long as it is smaller
than the video or still image it will overlay.
Note: JPEG compression is a lossy algorithm and is, therefore, not recommended for
subpicture assets.