That was actually one of the first things I tried was copying the timeline to a 720*480 in Premiere and it looked bad before I could even scale down or anything… I thought going from a larger frame size to a smaller it would look better, but in fact looked worse…
If I export the 960*720 timeline as a HQ QuickTime format, the finished product looks great, but as soon as it goes into Encore it looks worse than the MPEG-DVD file that doesn’t look that crisp even before Encore…