Has anyone created a time-lapse video with Final Cut Pro X?

I've taken a series of 2,631 I'd like to create a time-lapse video from. The process has been excruciating so far. I'm getting tons of spinning beachballs. I'm running Lion, 10.7.1.
Before I do any more hair pulling, has someone else out there successfully used FCP X for creating time-lapse videos? Any tips you can offer?

I love using FCPX for time lapse movies, here is an example:
http://vimeo.com/27460065
My workflow is as follows:
1. I import the photos to QT player 7 as an image sequence
2. I save the resulting movie in QT7 in Prores HQ, keeping the original movie size (eg. 3500x1940)
3. I import the movie to a 1920x1080 project in FCPX.
4. I can now easily create pans and zoom ins without losing quality.
I hope this helps.
Izhar

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Hello all,
I'm encountering a problem with my CS5.1 , let me explain . I want to create a time-lapse video from many pictures i've taken, But when i go to File------Automate------Batch , then I'm supposed to find in Actions something called "Time-Lapse processing " or something like this, but it's not there !!
Can you help me in how i can get this work,please ? much appreciated.

Welcome to the forum.
It appears that you are looking to process your Still Images in Photoshop, with an Action, and then via Automate to Batch. Is that correct?
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However, if one is doing Time-Lapse Video, PrPro can do that nicely.
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Hope that helps, and for the Photoshop aspect, you might want to post the question here: http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop/general
Good luck,
Hunt

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