5 hours to encode 4 minutes??? Tips anyone?

Hey guys, I know this is purely dependent upon what system you have, but I was just wondering if this seems right.
Currently compressing a 4 minute HDV sequence using the HD-DVD setting in Compressor and it's currently at 4.5 hours to complete. Time remaining has actually been increasing. I do understand that it should take noticeably longer cus its almost 5 times the size of an SD timeline, however, 4.5 hours plus for 4 minutes is kind of hard to believe.
Thoughts anyone?

"HD-DVD" ? I don't know that format and I'm not at my editing machines for the next few days to see what the options are for converting HDV to MPEG2.
HDV must be rendered to extract all frames. This can take a l-o-n-g time, yes. I think most of us convert to a more conventionally full-frame and full-rez format before editing. I am blessed in not having to bother with HDV
Dunno about that G4 issue. Haven't done video on a G4 for about 6 years. The G4 may not have or support the correct HDV codec and so created only 1/4 as many frames as necessary.
Give them a few more days, someone who understand this better than I may stop by.
bogiesan

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Round here we spell 'idiot' as 'inexperienced'
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In addition to what Steven said, imagine your workflow on this computer.
You have a FX-4100 CPU. It does not have hyper threading, only 4 cores, lacks full support for SSE 4.1+ extensions, which are used extensively during encoding if they are available.
You have only 8 GB memory, which is about bare minimum.
You indicate only a single disk for all the editing stuff.
You start with video material with 1024x768 in a 1366x768 sequence which you uprez to 1920x1080.
You use PNG's with 3353x3429 resolution.
You export to a highly compressed format with a final size of 873 MB.
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