Video looks good in PR but bad when exported

Hello. I hope someone can help me out here. I am doing color corrections in Premiere Pro and it looks good but when I export it, the colors are not as saturated (it needs more color). Do any of you know the reasons why and how I can fix this?
I read that my laptop might need to be calibrated is that true? Is there another way? How do I calibrate it?!!
Please help me. Thanks in advance.

like television and also the theater screen, but I know the theater screen is calibrated so I guess my video needs to be calibrated?
i think thats what the others are getting at.
if on your computer, premiere and vlc and quicktime all look the same there is no problem with premiere.
if your video on your computer looks different than another screen or tv, then its calibration.
you can adjust the saturation on your computer until it looks as dull as the calibrated theater screen, then you should have closer matching displays. in windows you may find a control for you video card, in mac im not sure. then you can adjust saturation in premiere to your clips/timeline.
if you dont want to change your saturation for your laptop, you could use an adjustment layer above the footage and reduce saturation to match the calibrated theater screen. then go back and boost the saturation on clips or previous adjustment layer... once happy with saturation that way, disable the adjustment layer with the reduced saturation for export.

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