Export in Motion vs. Compressor 2.1

My project takes about 2 minutes to render out directly from Motion, but compressor says its going to take 3 hours?
I know the compressor speed issue was a big deal for a while there, but I never noticed anything like this.
I am trying to render out to Pixlet video at 640 x 480.
My timeline contains an animation codec movie with alpha transparency and a few graphic layers...with audio (3 tracks)..
When I export using motion 2 it takes about 2 minutes...if I say go from compressor, then go over to compressor and hit submit...it takes forever to start, then it crawls and I quit...
I have 24 sequences each of the same length etc...would love a batch, but it will just be faster to do this one by hand I guess???

You might try Batch Export from FCP...
Patrick

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