Loss of Colour balance and brightness when burning to  DVD

Hi new to Mac and having problems with photos and video that is fine when viewed in iphotos/ivideo/idvd etc or even when printed from or viewed on a PC. All looks great when assembled but as soon as the project is burned to DVD and played on a standalone player, images seem very red and dark. has anybody experienced the same ? do i need to overcompensate /adjust balance before assembling and burning a project. Any ideas would be very helpful.

John, I saw a reply you posted in July to a similar question on the
Premiere Elements forrum, which is good because I think I will have some
extra work to do on this project.
The MPG files originally came from material I originally edited in
Premiere Elements on a MacBook Pro. The source material was AVI files from
a miniDV camcorder. I shot multiple cameras on several nights of a
theatrical production. With the volume of footage and a lack of computing
horse-power, I decided to make shorter segments based on the scenes within
the play. I know this was far from an optimal work-flow (mea culpa) but
that is the reality I face. So now I am looking for the best way forward.
Short of re-editing the whole thing (now that I have CS5.5 on a PC), which
is out of the question, it sounds like my best option is to go back to the
Mac and export the individual scenes as something other than MPG's. I
assume that in Premiere Elements 9, I need to select "Share with
Computer", then NTSC-Widescreen, and then go to the Advanced menu. Should
I then ramp the quality up to maximum? Are there other settings I need to
adjust to maximize the output quality?
At this point, I do not care about the size of the output files, nor do I
care if each 10 minute scene requires all night to render. I just would
like to get better quality clips that I can then use in CS5.5 on my PC to
assemble the full show, added chapter titles, and then print to DVD using
Encore. Any advice you can offer would be most welcome.

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