DVD menu stretched, DVD video distortion in BlueRay player, not in regular player.

Premiere Elements 15.  I am using completed, rendered videos made in P.E.15 and burning one series of them to DVD (45 minutes).

For the menu, I chose the Pan & Zoom HD template, but substituted a still photo 16x9.  It looks shrunk in the menu, as if it was condensed (not cut) to 4 x 3.  However, in the little thumbnail pictures mid-left, it and the chapter pages look stretched.  When I preview the menu, the photo goes from shrunk to stretched beyond the already wide size, with black bars top & bottom.  The chapter pages are stretched too.

I burned the DVD anyway.  As played on a regular old dvd player, the menu was stretched, but the videos played just fine when I turn the widescreen tv to zoom, they showed the same as when rendered on the computer (which is widescreen).

But on a Blue Ray player, everything was stretched, menu & videos.  I tried all the available settings (normal, zoom, full zoom, wide zoom), but the videos themselves played wrong in each setting.

Is there a fix for the menu, and is there a fix for the distortion in BlueRay?

I can do the video editing, but am not a technical person otherwise, so please consider that.

I have Windows 10.

When I start a P.E. project, it says NTSC-AVCHD-Full HD 1080i 30.

MPEG movie, 1280 x 720, Frame rate 30.0, Pixel Aspect Ratio 1.0

I don't know what other info you need.

Thank you!

Liesbeth B.

Message was edited by: Liesbeth Benedict I corrected the size of the picture used as custom template.