Thanks Z Cheema. THat worked nicely.

One thing that keeps puzzling me... I got an HDV video 1280x720. The .m2t files, when opened in vegas, look 'pale'. In Windows Media, they look kinda better. When taking this footage and converting to 4:3 NTSC or PAL DV, it obviously looses some that sharpness you get from HDV. But it also changes colors dramatically. Why? Does it change colorspace?

Also, how do you keep the image sharpness you get when looking at an interlaced footage on a computer monitor, in a progressive windows media file?

I mostly work with either mediocre quality DV footage, which I must edit and touch-up, then print back to DV tape. How can I be sure that what I print back, looks the same as the image I see within Sony? I mean, the images in Sony must be correct. But when printing it back to tape and playing it back on a TV, the colors are more intense. Is it REALLY possible to calibrate an LCD (Samsung 720N) monitor to be color-correct?

Also, sometimes I need to have the finished product in Windows Media. The images I see in Sony look good. The images I see in Windows Media are mostly over saturated, while the ones I see in Media Player Classic seem more like the ones I see in Sony. The problem is that if I have a standard Windows Media Player that comes with Windows. Nothing has been tweaked in it. 95% of the Windows using world has the same.
If I change the colors in Vegas so that the footage looks good IN vegas, then what I will get is a footage that will NOT look good in 95% of the people who will watch it later on their computer.
How I can change the colors to match the colors used by Windows Media Player? Are we talking about different colorspaces? Or???

And the problem is, that I cannot even use an external monitor for this. If my brand new Samsung LCD montior, all on its standard presets, and my fresh windows running Windows Media Player without tweaks, is showing an oversaturated image, then I cannot even adjust colors in Sony, since the end result will be different from the ones seen within Sony.

I am stuck with this issue. Is there a way to use Windows Media Player as the External Video Preview device for Sony?

Thank you guys for all the help. Oh, just a good tip for those who read my post this far: get the latest Connect HD from Cineform, if you are working with HDV. I was stunned how it handles colors. The m2t->intermediate avi conversion is at least 40% better. The colors are more accurate and more intense naturally. I was shocked and had to reconvert all my footages.

David