Video looks terrible after imported into Encore CS3

I have a great looking m2v file (for Blu Ray) that I compressed with Squeeze. After I import it into Encore CS3, it looks poor in preview. The clips starts off with white text on a black background. In preview mode, the text looks aliased or "jagged". I thought this was a preview issue, but it looks just as poor after I burn it to BD-R and play it back on our PS3.
Encore project specs : 1280 x 720 59.94fps MPEG2
The specs of my m2v file: 1280 x 720 59.94fps av, bitrate is 28000 kbps.
Naturally, our client is getting impatient for an explanation. Any help on solving this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Vince

You should wind up with an encoded asset (your clip) as 1920x1080 m2v which should be automatically created, if you use a BluRay Project and select MPEG2 under the project settings.
Why don't you try that and then burn a BluRay folder and burn the disk with IMGBurn, using a BD-RE disk, so you won't waste money on several BD-R disks?
I'm not sure where the "encore specs of 1280x720" come in.
I'd be interested as to how this comes out.
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