Looks good after COMPRESSOR/lousy after BUILD

I've encoded a 15 minute MiniDV sequence using Compressor - High Quality CBR 6.8 Mbps Best Motion Estimation. Material looks beautiful. But after DVD ST 3 builds it to a VIDEO_TS directory, it looks lousy, washed out and way too bright! Any thoughts? Any way to prevent this??? What's going on?
Thanks,
Fernanda.

How are you determining that it is "washed out and way too bright?" If you are viewing it on your computer display using (for example) Apple's DVD Player then you should really set your display to an NTSC profile (or PAL) using the System Preferences -> Displays panel (switch to that profile only while checking the DVD color and brightness, switch back to your normal display calibration after you are done). If it looks too bright on your TV then you may just need to calibrate the TV using a DVD setup disc (most people tend to set their TV brightness too high).
To make everything work as it should you really need a carefully calibrated (color matched) workflow. Check you computer monitor, check your digital-to-analog converter, check your NTSC/PAL monitor, check your TV. Have you tried running a reference video end-to-end through your system? You also need to be certain that you are comparing each video sample through a similar transfer process.
Of course, you could have everything set up correctly and thus it's possible that you are suffering from different issue. But my first suggestion would be to look at all of the above.

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