Here are 3 snaps of a cineform avi and mov clip and a m2t clip showing difference of each, I sure would like to know why the big difference, mov. seems sharper, more vibrant, etc

See the other post as this a Vegas "feature", two different RGB profiles.

There is an excellent description of this here:

http://glennchan.info/articles/vegas/v8color/v8color.htm