Why is Encore producing such bad standard definition DVDs?

Hi everyone I really need your help, Encore makes me wanna pull my hair out. We just switched from Final Cut Pro to the new Adobe CS6 Production Suite so I am fairly new to this set-up so please point out anything that I am doing wrong, any pointers, anything... I really want to learn.
Here is the issue: I have my project looking great in Premiere Pro, when I export to Encore, it still looks nice... then when I burn the DVD...all the drama unfolds..the picture is soft, grainy and just downright nasty looking. The color of the footage looks nice on my monitor and another one in the studio and even my bosses' PC laptop but in some DVD players the talent looks like they have a tan... the reds are just way off. We even have some footage from a RED camera and just as a test burned that to a DVD and the same exact thing happened. I have lived on the forum for days and have exhausted all efforts so I am reaching out to everyone...
Here is some info on the footage, the sequence settings and what I have tried:
The footage was filmed with a Panasonic AG - HPX170P Camera using the DVCPRO50 720p/24p format.
(Footage specs: 960 x 720 - Frame Rate: 29.97 (24p) - Pixel Aspect ratio : 1.3333
The Premiere Pro sequence setting was chosen from the sequence presets under DVCPROHD / 720p / DVCPROHD 720p 24
The specs of that preset is:
Editing Mode: P2 720p 60HZ DVCPRO HD
Timebase: 23.976 Frames Per Second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD Anamorphic 1080 (1.333)
Fields: No Fields : Progressive scan
Display Format: 24fps Time code
What I have tried:
Dynamic link - Encore doesn't like the AE comps that are in the sequence. I rendered those out and dropped them back in with the same result...In Encore they would stutter and skip when played.
I then exported out of Premiere through the Media Encoder as a quicktime file, H.264 and MPEG-DVD. All of these files look great in Encore but burned to a DVD.
I'm on a Mac so I couldn't try the windows codecs to see if that helped either.
Anyone have any ideas? Now, there could be some media veterans out there bursting out in laughter and know exactly what is going on so please do share with this young media grasshopper. Thanks to everyone for their patience and willingness to help. I find it awesome that there are people out there that want to help others.
Everyone have a great day, happy editing...
Much thanks,
-Darby

Mr. Smith! Thank you so much sir for your reply... the tutorials link is worth its weight in gold!
I tried the MPEG2-DVD method after reading on these forums to try that when the Dynamic Link doesn't work..in fact... I think that was you
The MPEG2 - DVD looks really nice in Encore but once it is on a DVD not so much at all... I talked to Adobe Support today and they even admitted that it shouldn't look that bad, after almost 3 hours of experimenting the gent exported out of Premiere Pro as a QuickTime file with the Video Codec being Animation. It still isn't the greatest but he said that is all he could do, that thatwas the best he could get out of Encore. He did play the DVD that I burned through the VLC Media Player and it looked decent so could it be Encore? To me that can't be the best that Encore can do, professional businesses use this software and I know they can't just be putting out crap and accepting it as such. I know it's hard to know what I'm saying without seeing it.
When I played the DVDs on my Mac, they looked pretty good color wise, but when I played them on DVD players hooked to TVs the talent's faces were almost a sun burned color. Could it be the DVD players? I am going to do some more experimenting playing the DVD on different DVD players tonight and see if anything comes from it, check out the tutorials that you sent over and if all else fails call Adobe back. I'll let you know how it turns out in case someone else has the same problem.
Thanks for your help agian Mr. Smith, it's greatly appreciated!
-Darby

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