Burn Quality on IMovie 10

I made a movie and burned onto DV, unfortunately the quality of the playback is poor.
The blacks look like shadows and the pinks are too bright.
When I play the film on the computer it is fine.
Can someone advise where I have gone wrong

You can set the default duration of stills but you have to do it before you start the project. 
iMovie is not really suitable for stop motion videos and iMovie 10 is worse than iMovie 9 because the minimum still duration is not really controllable as you have found.   I don't have experience of making such videos but there are 3rd party apps which appear more suited to this, for example http://www.macworld.com/article/1146623/stop_motion_Mac.html
mentions some of them, though its a bit old and you may be able to find more up to date information.
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