Hello,

I have a 5 minutes 1280x720 movie and it takes about 30 minutes to convert to AppleTV via share -> Apple Devices
I did a test exporting a movie with current settings (a 3 minutes export) and converting in HandBrake to Apple TV, took 5 minutes.

I don't know why FCPX takes too long for that export...

Thanks,
Ulisses

From other posts this is a known issue. We can only hope it will get sorted out in an upcoming update, along with batch export and export range.

This is interesting but I would like to know are both methods using the conversion or transcoding.
As in bit rate and how many passes?

Well, Handbrake and Mpeg Streamclip both have pretty good reputations in speed of converting. Although I find the quality vs file size comparison often in Mpeg Streamclip's dis-advantage.

Just wondering:
Did you export an 'edited' timeline, with all your effects etc. on it in FCP X, or did you just dropped the finished movie in an empty timeline?
If you did the first, could you try to do the second? Dropping the finished movie and rendering to the Apple TV setting in FCP X? See if that makes it render faster...
And is the quality of both comparable?

Anyway, this doesn't completely surprise me. In some areas I find FCP X very fast (scrubbing footage, working with H.264, ...) but in others I find it very slow (working/exporting with XDCAM, exporting some cut cut- edits, ...)