Exporting different formats

My question involves DVD Studio and Motion. I created a nice mirror finish animation in Motion 3.0.2 for first play on a dvd and everything works great. I exported it as an "animation" 720x480 and it looks great, very crisp and exactly like it does when I look at the preview in Motion, but I export it in NTSC DV 720x480 and it looks like crap, the colors look like they bleed into each other, kind of overall dull looking. I understand NTSC colors differ. My final output will be on DVD so my question is if I use the "animation" export as first play in DVD Studio Pro, will it look like crap when I play it on my client's dvd player/tv? Are there any settings I can change to make it look nice and crisp? I'm sure it can be done, I see hollywood dvd's look just as sharp as the animation export I have...granted they have multimillion dollar budgets, anything basic I'm missing would be appreciated if someone pointed it out. Thank you.

I've been away but thanks for the responses guys. I haven't tried exporting the motion project directly into DSP, I'll give that a shot.
I don't know if its impossible to export the crisp elements of the animations from motion. I agree that DV has its limitations but I've seen plenty of dvd's that have great looking opening sequences that are basically what I'm looking for but ofcourse those come from some big production houses but there are wedding video's I've seen that look really good. So there must be a way to do this, I'll have to play with it I'm sure. I'll try to post what I'm looking for versus what I'm getting on my website this week and maybe you guys can see what I'm talking about and can possibly spawn some ideas on what can be tweaked. The problem with tweaking ofcourse will be the encoding times but oh well...on to the tweakage!
Thanks for all your help guys and please post if you think of something.

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