Batch Render?

In her wonderful book, Final Cut Pro 5, Lisa Brenneis mentions that you can batch render multiple projetcs, but fails to mention where this feature is.
Does anyone know, I have looked all over and even searched on the FCP manual....

Again, that means sequences (or timelines) - FCP does not render projects. (Projects, in FCP-speak, are collections of clips, sequences and render files.) It's a typo or a flat-out error that you've caught, because there is no in-built functionality to batch render sequences across projects.
The workaround that some folks use is to open the selected sequences from all projects in the Timeline, then set the Auto-Render time (in User Preferences) to something absurdly low (5 minutes or less) and leave the machine alone to render out.

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HI(Bonjour)!
As I know, Livetype is not "applescriptable". He's
not in the dictionnary list in script editor.
So I do not think that you can go further than open
this application via finder, who is
"applescriptable".
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http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html
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Patrick Inhofer wrote:
Drew13 wrote:
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