[Craig Seeman] "I can't help but think the article was overly edited"
Could be.
I'm just pointing out that as it stands, the color portion of the interview is confusing or even misleading -- and color is important to get right for broadcast finishing.
[Craig Seeman] "I thought the "wrong/correct" example might have been related to the difference between using a Rec 709 profile vs actual profiling."
As presented, I thought it was part of the "blue-only" discussion about lining up HDTVs attached as second monitors to the Mac.
[Craig Seeman] "I don't see a blue only feature in FCPX (can I really not find it?). Since he makes mention of both Lion and FCPX perhaps he's beta testing the next FCPX release and slipped something out."
It doesn't matter -- pre-display blue-only is voodoo color. Read jPo's post that I linked to above. Blue-only has to be a display feature, not a test signal in and of itself. It's meant to allow the user to adjust for saturation or phase errors within the monitor. It's only relevant on a monitor with the proper controls, and with the proper test signal -- encoded color bars.
Creating a profile for the monitor and allowing ColorSync to manage color with it makes this unnecessary. Until FCPX offers traditional video I/O, profiling is the one and only way to get accurate color.
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