Uh, I prefaced that as "not intended as sarcasm" and you you still took it completely the wrong way. Yes, kdenlive is for general purpose, but clearly the trends are for Internet distribution (streaming and download) and non-optical in-home playback, and I believe the majority of kdenlive users fall into these categories. This is where my priority is as the MLT developer.

With that said, MLT was originally written for television broadcast applications, and it does constrain the Y'PbPr gamut to the legal limits. Also, it does scaling conversions to and from RGB. IOW, you produce RGB-based assets using the full range of RGB values and let MLT handle the conversion to Y'PbPr and worry about the legal limits but not by simple truncation of the extremes of the gamut but through scaling by differences in the ranges of each gamut.

Your comment about not sarcasm made me take your note dead serious. As in "no need for colour correction here".
That's how blunt tool for nuances forum posts can be.
(sorry for being a bit OT)

It is my understanding that Dan does indeed think that color correction is needed. He wrote the white balance plugin for Frei0r, after all, and the color correction tool for kino.

I think he just talks about a specific set of rules, in relation to color representation in a specific format?

>Not intended as sarcasm - how important are the legal color restraints when all you do is publish your videos online or play them >back on a home media center with a digital panel of some sort (not via optical disc)?

It is VERY important. As somebody else mentioned, I guess you want to cater to all varieties of production, and you never know what kind of equipment your production will end up on (usually). As soon as someone puts it out on a TV, and there are a number of ways to do that, even with a media center, the legal color game is into play. As I said - all the rest of the tools in the chain are tuned to this and actually expect others to do the same. The problems occur when one link in the chain does not want to play ball. What usually happens is that this link is excluded from the chain :-) You would be amazed at how many that still watch moving pictures on tv screens.

For a free tool like Kdenlive, this is actually even more important. It is more likely to be used in poor areas of the world, and I can tell you this - in the village here in the mountains of Brazil where I live now, it is really far between the media centers. But almost everyone has a TV or two, and most of them have DVD players. And yes, even in the slums here in Brazil, a lot of people have computers and internet. So if you forget for a second about USA and Europe where people can afford to buy one of the major videoediting systems, I think you will see that in the major market for Kdenlive, DVD and TV is still king :-)