Well I've just captured some footage without the frame mode on to test my new wide angle lens (canon) and it seems better but...

...when burning to DVD, the panning quality on the TV is less that sufficient. Horizontal pans are bad yet vertical pans seem ok. Weird!

I'm not a big fan of Adobe Encore so avoided using it. I rendered the media as AVI and then converted it into a VIDEO_TS folder using VSO DivX to DVD.

My question now is - What is the best method of producing DVD's from Premiere CS3?

I've also realised recently that the XL1 doesn't actually offer true (anamorphic) 16:9 and am therefore looking to rent an XL2 to see the difference, obviously looking to purchase the XL2 is the quality is much better. Do you think this may also contribute to the panning quality issue when converted to DVD?

The footage of the wide angle lens can be seen at wide

Thanks again guys...