Encoding with AME - blurred video

Hi All:
I'm fairly new to Encore/AME but have been doing DVD authoring on other platforms for a long time.
I have a 3 hr project on HDV that I have finished to Blu ray. I'm trying to create a DVD from the project. Since the default transcoding presets in Encore are too high to get 3 hrs of content on 1 disc, I'm using AME to transcode it from Encore. However the quality of the video is far worse (looks blurred) than encoding the same raw footage on other systems like TMPGenc.
Any suggestions on what I might be doing wrong.
Thanks,
Kris K

All:
Interestingly after playing around with Encore, I found out that if I started a fresh project with menu files that were sized to DVD frame size, the encoding and video quality of the DVD is much better and is comparable to what I'm getting from other sizes. So I guess I need to redo my encore project for DVD, vs. burning a DVD from the Blu-ray project.
Has anybody else seen this issue?
Kris K

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