Quality reduction from Premiere Pro to Encore DVD

I have 3 videos exported as mpgs from PPro that are 4GB, 1GB, 1GB. I was happy with the overall quality of those files. But when I imported them into Encore and burned a DVD, they only took up ~750MB of space on the disk. The quality of the DVD output was not nearly as crisp as the exported mpegs.
How can I get the best quality DVD output from my videos to transfer to Encore?
Thanks in advance
Ray

Export from PPro as AVI, with settings appropriate to your area... NTSC or PAL
I second John's recommendation. That is my workflow.
My guess would be that your MPEG-2 Exports are not 100% DVD-compliant, or that the Export settings could be improved upon.
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