Exporting AVCHD*****

Hi,
I've recently finished a project shot in AVCHD. My export settings are:
Quicktime Conversion -> MP4 -> H.264 codec -> 1280x720, 5000 kbits/sec, Current Frame Rate, and Automatic Key Frames.
Although after trying a few second test run, it provided great results but the compression time is very long. For a few seconds it took about 5-10 minutes. (2.6ghz, 4gb RAM)
Does anyone know of a better way to export?? Or is this just the case when working with AVCHD footage??
P.S. I know that if I basically lower the numbers for the settings, it will provide a smaller file (which will take less time to finish), but I do not want to do that.
Thank you!

It's not the original AVCHD source format (FCP doesn't edit AVCHD native so you will have transcoded that already to an intermediate format) ... the problem now is your target codec. MP4/H.264 requires a processor intensive compression and if MP4/H264 is what you want then you just have to suck it up.
Is there a better way? What is this edited piece for? Where/How will it be shown?

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