Thanks, very kind. I will admit I am not very tech savvy, nor do I read manuals. Started on a Windows machine, like most, but was having trouble with it crashing all the time. Moved to all Apple and things are better. Using Final Cut Pro X, it is major overkill for my skill level. As with all my gear I am like a 13yr old with a Ferrari, just driving around and grinding the first 3 gears. I am sure I am not taking advantage of what FCPX can do. The Cocos videos and some of the rowing videos I have actually just shot the video in MPEG4 and skipped ACHVD. For ACHVD I have used Clipwrap to convert for editing. I am not a pixel peeper but when I run the Youtube videos on our 1080HD, widescreen tv they look good enough to me. But once again I am not submitting stuff to the National Geographic and am flattered anyone watches anything we do past the 2min mark, lol.
With the video I will often do some adjusting of brightness and contrast to keep things from looking blown out. Being a "Stills Guy" I use Photoshop and with that program am very comfortable with adjusting Color in RAW. With FCPX I struggle with the Color function, I wish it was like Photoshop. I am sure a video shooter/editor guru could give much better advice on that function. I think I missed the class on the "color wheel" and how they combine. Sorry don't have any great insights, maybe someone more skilled will jump in.