Is Lightroom any good for preparing stills for export to Final Cut Pro?

I am a fan of Lightroom. I am running ver. 3.0. I am wondering if it might be practical to use Lightroom to prepare stills for import toFinal Cut Pro when I don't need a layer. It really is good to use Lightroom if you can, right? In the past most people have used Photoshop for this task. Here are a few notes I have made from a tutorial which shows how to do it in Photoshop, it seems very good, title: "Final Cut Studio 2, Moving on Stills" is by Larry Jordan and is at Lynda.com:
Scaling: Use bicubic sharpener if reduction is required
Edit / Assign profile: SRGB IEC61966-2.1 for import into SD project, HDTV((Rec. 709) for import into HD Project
(Is exporting to these profiles in Lightroom as good as assigning them in Photoshop? Unfortunately I don't understand this stuff fully. In my PSCS5 The HDTV)Rec 709) is on list, It isn't on list for LR when in Export window, I click on color space and select Other. It seems like list comes from Library/Preferences/Adobe, Color/Profiles I don't understand why it doesn't show up with all the other profiles in LR. )
Image mode - set to RGB Color (I don't understand what that accomplishes, can anyone explain)
(It sounds like saving file as a TIFF is the a best way, I can do that with LR)
I wonder why not use 16 bit depth for export? There must be some pros and cons. Any comments?
Has anyone already done this with Lightroom? Any comments appreciated.

I doubt you'll notice the difference if you are not watching on a
reference TV monitor. I took a few sRGB images into Photoshop and
assigned the HDTV profile. I don't see any difference at all.
2010/8/10 Dorin Nicolaescu-Musteață <[email protected]>:
>> if you look at the HDTV (Rec. 709) profile in Colorsync utility, it is exactly equal to sRGB. This makes sense as the standards are based on each other and they have the same primaries. I doubt there is any point in using the HDTV profile.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._709#Transfer_characteristics, both share the same primaries and white point, but have a different gamma. Doesn't it mean that same pixel data should look different (slightly lighter and darker) in each space?
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