BURNING TO BLU-RAY IN FCP 7

OK MAC FAMILY
I have a 17" mac book pro laptop with:
a)...4gb of ram
b)...160gb internal hard drive with 60gb of free space available
c)...2.4.ghz intel core 2 duo processer
d)...256mb geforce 8600m gt graphic card
e)...2tb western digital external hard drive
f)...intel high def audio
g)...Lacie d2 blu-ray burner w/firewire 800/400 & 2.0 usb
h)...the new snow leopard OS
i)...the new fcp7 studio
It took me 20 hours total from the rendering process of my timeline to the complete burn on to blu-ray disc. The hi def footage total time is 1hr & 50min.
And it took another 15 hour to take that same hi-def footage and burn it to a standard definition disc using the new DVD feature in fcp7.
HERE'S MY QUESTIONS:
#1)what is the average time to burn 1 hour and 50 min hi def footage to a blu ray disc using the new fcp7 through the new new blu-ray feature?
#2)is there a faster way to burn 2 hour of hi def footage in less time?
#3)what is the shortest time anyone burned 2 hours of hi def footage in fcp7?

Hey Charlie,
Welcome to Apple's FCP forum.
#1)what is the average time to burn 1 hour and 50 min hi def footage to a blu ray disc using the new fcp7 through the new new blu-ray feature?
Ages ... seriously tho, sorry, I don't know :/
#2)is there a faster way to burn 2 hour of hi def footage in less time?
Yes, absolutely, you need a faster Mac with more processors to lend to the task. An 8 core Mac Pro with all cores lent to the encoding via a Compressor cluster will leave your MBP in the dust. Or a hardware based encoder such as that provided by Matrox in their MXO2 "MAX" line of I/O devices. My MXO2 MAX will encode 60 minutes of HD content to H264 for BluRay in real time (you still have to burn it to disc thereafter, and the speed of that depends on the speed of your burner).
#3)what is the shortest time anyone burned 2 hours of hi def footage in fcp7?
Sorry, I encode but I don't burn.
Best
Andy

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