1440x1080 HD to 640x360 QT

I was working on a HD project which had 56 separate cuts and was captured and imported into FCP. The sequence was recognized and set up as 1440x1080@ 59:97. The client had requested the finished file be a QT H264 file at 640x360. My FCP timeline was exported to compressor 3.05 and compressed in the requested QT format. It took approx 18 Hrs. Does this time sound right as I was doing this on my Quad 2.8 with 6 Gigs of ram?
After this was done a colleague suggested I might save time by making a new sequence and transcoding it as a 640x360 (custom 16:9) using H264 as my codec and the saving it as a QT file. Is the a workflow that could save me time and give me the same result?
Thank You
Jeff

Hard to tell if 18 hours sounds reasonable without knowing the total duration of your source sequence, but it is most likely normal.
I would recommend having a look at Matrox CompressHD, if you do a lot of H.264 delivery and want faster/better results.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErU-cs1S0Kw

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