Compressor is going to take 19 hrs??

I know I don't have the best system, but to convert 40 minutes of Apple ProRes 422 for HD on Vimeo is going to take 19 hours? This seems unreal.

Hi
We had the same problems with long compression times.
We now use this set up:
AVCHD files from a Canon HS S100 are imported to FCP 7.2 in ProRes 422. After editing we export a reference movie via export/ quicktime - uncheck "Make Movie Self-Contained".
(These files are small and if you have more jobs its possible to assign them to one job with different targets in Compressor in one go and then do something else while the computer do all the processing. Remember that these reference files must have access to all original medias while Compressor is working - so don't unplug any harddrive! )
After making the refence file – a mov-file – is dragged into Compressor (3.5.2) and compressed into H.264 1280/720 which is what we need for showing on our infocus projector.
In Compressor we have made different settings for different qualities - all with frame control on and progressive output. The resize and deinterlace can both be set to "Better". It takes about 10 min. to compress 5 min of video in the better quality. If we set them to "Best" it takes at least 10 times as long. The finished files are about 20 GB/hour no matter what the quality settings.
We find the picture quality to be quite satisfying (we demand a high quality).
If you (if your MAC has more processors) then activate Qmaster in the system setting and check "Allow job segmenting" in Inspector for you compression-setting. This speeds up the compression even if the Qmaster only can work on one computer. H.264 is not multi-threaded so setting up Qmaster will get all processors to share the work.
Hope it helps – even though it was a while ago you had the problem.
MacPro 2.93 Quadcore, 8 GB Ram, Final Cut Studio 3

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